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
cease honeymoon stifle until
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns
commit follies fools-and-foolishness man regrets
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
kissing men average
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
love-is dinner appetite
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
men ideals ideal-woman
A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
men eternity intervals
Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
men temptation cheerful
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
real men dollars
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
men shoes average
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
men forever annoying
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
wine men flattery
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
men hands trying
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
eye men looks
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
jobs mistake men
A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.