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Helen Rowland [1875-1950] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Journalist

Helen Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World newspaper called Reflections of a Bachelor Girl.

Marriage, Beauty, Imagination, Wedding, Age, Art, Chance, Dating, Faith, Funny, Home, Jealousy, Love, Money, Motivational, Moving On, Nature, Relationship, Trust, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.	Moving On	101
You will never win if you never begin.	Motivational	102
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.	Home	103
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.	Jealousy	104
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.		105
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.	Marriage	106
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.	Marriage	107
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.		108
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.		109
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.	Faith	110
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.		111
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.		112
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.		113
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.	Art	114
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.	Women	115
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.	Chance, Money	116
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.	Wedding	117
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.	Relationship, Trust	118
One man's folly is another man's wife.	Funny	119
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.	Nature	120
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.		121
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.	Marriage, Wedding	122
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.	Imagination	123
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.	Imagination, Love	124
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.		125
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.		126
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.	Marriage	201
The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.		202
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.		203
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.	Marriage	204
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.		205
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.'		206
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.		207
The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.		208
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.	Beauty, Dating	209
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.	Age	210
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.		211
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.	Marriage	212
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.	Marriage	213
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.		214
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.	Beauty	215
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.		216
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.	Marriage	217
Variety is the spice of love.		218
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.		219
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?		220
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.		221
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.		222
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.		223
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.		224
In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.		225
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.		226
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.		301
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'		302
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.		303
A fool and her money are soon courted.		304
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.		305
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.		306
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.		307
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.		308
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.		309
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.		310
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.		311

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