Helen Rowland Quotes

1876–1950, American Journalist
quotes
50
topics
12
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What do these mean?
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“A fool and her money are soon courted.”
Money
“One man's folly is often another man's wife.”
Adultery
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
Trust
“Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.”
Lovers
“''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.”
Home
“There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.”
Men
“Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.”
Divorce
“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.”
Bachelor
“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”
Flirting
“A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
Husbands
“Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.”
Marriage
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
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“The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.”
Baldness
“No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.”
Reputation
“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
Husbands
“A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
Bachelor
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
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“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
Love
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
Relationships
“Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
Bachelor
“In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.”
Sacrifice
“The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.”
Flirting
“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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“It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.”
Lovers
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
Marriage
“The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.”
Opportunity
“Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.”
Absence
“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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“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.”
Heartbreak
“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''”
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