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Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World newspaper called Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl , The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor , and A Guide to Men . Wikipedia  

✵ 1875 – 1950  •  Other names Helene Rowlandová, Helen Rowlandová
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Helen Rowland: 13 quotes3 likes

Famous Helen Rowland Quotes

“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, p. 5 (1903)
Other

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

Helen Rowland

Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)

“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

Helen Rowland

Bachelors
A Guide to Men (1922)

“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

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/975693.Helen_Rowland
Other

“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

Fourth Interlude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_93 <br class="br">A Guide to Men (1922)

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

Helen Rowland

Overture: Prelude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_20 <br class="br">A Guide to Men (1922)

Helen Rowland Quotes

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

Helen Rowland

Brides
A Guide to Men (1922)

“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

First Interlude
A Guide to Men (1922)

“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.”

Helen Rowland

Cymbals and Kettle-drums
A Guide to Men (1922)

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

Helen Rowland

Variations
A Guide to Men (1922)

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

Helen Rowland

Syncopations
A Guide to Men (1922)

“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

Divorces
A Guide to Men (1922)

“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

Intermezzo
A Guide to Men (1922)

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