Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Helen Rowlandwas an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World newspaper called Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, and A Guide to Men...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
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Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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One man's folly is often another man's wife.
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There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly.
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To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
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Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he'll end
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What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
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When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's mad.
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.