Helen Rowland

"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."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Egoism

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Marriage

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Variety is the spice of love."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Love

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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 "A Guide to Men"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Truth and Falsity

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Happiness

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Happiness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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?"

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Health and Alcohol

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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 "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Sin and Conscience

Wit and Humor

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Marriage

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Egoism

Marriage

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Helen Rowland

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Helen Rowland

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Marriage

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)