Helen Rowland - Man Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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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.

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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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Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

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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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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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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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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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