Helen Rowland Quotes

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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
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

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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.

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

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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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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America".

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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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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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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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Flattery affects a man like any other sort of dope. It stimulates and exhilarates him for the moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolish.

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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

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Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

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Somehow, a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy for ever!

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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

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A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar—a custom which is still continued.

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

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

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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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A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of the heart.

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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

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The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

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

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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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It takes one 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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When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

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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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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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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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It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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