Helen Rowland Quotes - Page 3

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• Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Taken, Flavor

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• At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Twenties, Fifty

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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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  Falling In Love, Heart, Eye

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

  Helen Rowland

  Divorce, Price Of Love, Matrimony

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• Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

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  Mistake, Love Is, Giving

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.25, Litres

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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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  Love, Relationship, Money

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres

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• 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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  Home, Successful, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• 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.

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  Nature, Memorable, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.30, Litres

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• Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Spring, Hands

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• 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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  Girl, Art, Philosophy

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  A Guide to Men prelude (1922)

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• 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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  Laughter, Kissing, Laughing

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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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

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  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Men, Faithful

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• Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

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  Romance, Ends, Honeymoon

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Men, Literature, Littles

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Love, Acceptance, Kissing

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.27, Litres

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• 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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  Vision, Scope, Capacity

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

  Helen Rowland

  Mistake, Loneliness, Love Is

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• 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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  Funny, Couple, Mad

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• 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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  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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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.

  Helen Rowland

  Giving Up, Mean, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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