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
jest cynic wit
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
funny marriage men
One man's folly is another man's wife.
inspirational beauty single
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
women order understanding
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
marriage men vanity
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
women order tangled
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
girl art philosophy
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
kissing licking smokers
Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.
relationship heart men
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.
marriage fear men
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
men dental-work lasts
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
life work hate
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
country wife optimism
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.