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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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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A man's ""ideal woman"" is usually the one whom he passes with a worshipful bow-when he is on his way to call on the other kind
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A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse
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A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.
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Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.
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The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.
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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
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Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.
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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
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For one man's chin is as rough as another's, and one man's lies are as smooth as another's