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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• You will never win if you never begin.

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

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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.

  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.

  Helen Rowland

• What a man calls his “conscience” is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  Helen Rowland

• Variety is the spice of love.

  Helen Rowland

• 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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• There’s so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who’s married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

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• There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

  Helen Rowland

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

• The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

• Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

  Helen Rowland

• Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

  Helen Rowland

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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