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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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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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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Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
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A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
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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.
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Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
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Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
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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.
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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
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Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
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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.