Top 100 Helen Rowland Quotes
#1. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.
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#7. The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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#8. Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate.
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#9. There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
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#19. The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
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#20. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Woman's love
a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
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#29. Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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#34. No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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#35. Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.
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#36. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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#37. Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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#41. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
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#42. It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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#43. Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
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#53. It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
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#59. 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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#60. The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
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#61. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
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#62. Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
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#63. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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#64. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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#65. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
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#70. Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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#71. 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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#72. The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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#73. Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
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#74. Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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#75. Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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#76. There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
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#82. Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#88. Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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#93. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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#94. Love is a matter of give and take
marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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#95. An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
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#96. 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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#97. A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman
a married man needs only an excuse.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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