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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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.
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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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One man's folly is often another man's wife.
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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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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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There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.
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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
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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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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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For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.