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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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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There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
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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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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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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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To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the 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.
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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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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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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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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.