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Helen Rowland

1875-1950. American journalist and humorist.

1. "Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Sin and Conscience -:- Woman and Man -:- Wit and Humor

2. "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?"

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

3. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage

4. "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."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Marriage

5. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

6. "What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Sin and Conscience -:- Woman and Man

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

8. "Variety is the spice of love."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Love

9. "To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Happiness -:- Woman and Man

10. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Happiness -:- Love -:- Woman and Man

11. "To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end."

categories: Woman and Man

12. "The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

13. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Love -:- Marriage -:- Truth and Falsity

14. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Truth and Falsity -:- Woman and Man

15. "One man's folly is another man's wife."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Marriage -:- Loyalty and Betrayal

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

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Love -:- Marriage

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

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Egoism -:- Marriage

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Love -:- Marriage

20. "Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Family and Loneliness

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: History and Nations -:- Manners and Ethics -:- Marriage

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Love -:- Reality and Imagination

23. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

24. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Woman and Man

25. "Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage

26. "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."

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

27. "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."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage

28. "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."

source: "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Egoism -:- Family and Loneliness

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

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage -:- Love

30. "A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."

source: "A Guide to Men"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man


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