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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A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.