Helen Rowland Quotes

• When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

  Helen Rowland

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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.

  Helen Rowland

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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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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

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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.

  Helen Rowland

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  You will never win if you never begin.

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

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• A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

  Helen Rowland

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• In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.

  Helen Rowland

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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.

  Helen Rowland

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• Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

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• One man’s folly is another man’s wife.

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• My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

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• Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

  Helen Rowland

• Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her – when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

  Helen Rowland

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

• When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.

  Helen Rowland

• When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

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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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• Variety is the spice of love.

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Helen Rowland (66)

Birth:	1875
Death:	1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Helen Rowland was born in Washington, D.C., USA. She was an American journalist. 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.

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