Top 100 Helen Rowland Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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#3. Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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#4. Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
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#5. A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
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#6. Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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#7. The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
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#8. Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
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#9. A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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#14. Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
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#15. 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?
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#16. Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#21. It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
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#22. France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
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#23. A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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#24. In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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#25. A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
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#26. A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman
a married man needs only an excuse.
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#27. Results for A man is like a cat; chase him and he'll run; sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet
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#28. Love is a matter of give and take
marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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#29. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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#30. The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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#31. There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.
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#32. Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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#38. Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
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#39. Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
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#40. Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman
and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract
but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
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#44. Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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#45. True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
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#46. Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
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#47. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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#48. The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
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#49. 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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#50. Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.
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#52. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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#53. Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
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#54. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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#55. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
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#56. Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
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#57. There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
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#58. Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate.
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#59. The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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#60. 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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#61. A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
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#62. 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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#63. The mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
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#64. For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
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#65. There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
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#66. 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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#67. Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
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#70. 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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#71. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
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#72. It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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#73. Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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#74. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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#75. Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
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#76. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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#77. No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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#78. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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#83. Woman's love
a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
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#84. 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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#85. A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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#86. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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#87. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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#88. Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
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#89. To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
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#90. Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
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#91. A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
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#92. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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#93. When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.
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#94. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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#95. A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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#100. A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
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