Quotes by
Helen Rowland |
1875-1950 , American journalist & humorist
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 (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).
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Quotations
| • | 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. 22 |
| • | A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. 9 |
| • | Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. 9 |
| • | Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without anaesthetic. 7 |
| • | 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. 6 |
| • | The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. 6 |
| • | When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. 5 |
| • | Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. 5 |
| • | A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. 4 |
| • | When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. 4 |
| • | Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain. 4 |
| • | The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. 3 |
| • | Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. 3 |
| • | A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. 3 |
| • | It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. 3 |
| • | Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. 3 |
| • | When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad. 2 |
| • | The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. 2 |
| • | A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an “affair of the heart”. 2 |
| • | Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
