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
inspiration men making-love
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
love spring fall
Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
baby passion boys
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
divorce matrimony price-of-love
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
marriage husband women
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
husband wrinkles unnecessary
Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.
men achieve poor
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
relieved widowers
Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.
loneliness mistake love-is
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
men thinking waiting
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
men married forget
A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.
husband certain feels
There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.
love art lying
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
mistake love-is giving
Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.