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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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
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When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's mad.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
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The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them
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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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Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he'll end
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.