Best Quotes by Helen Rowland (Top 10)
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
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Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
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The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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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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More Helen Rowland Quotes
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
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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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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
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A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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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.
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
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When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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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.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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You will never win if you never begin.
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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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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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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One man's folly is another man's wife.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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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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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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