Helen Rowland – amerykańska dziennikarka i humorystka.
„Miłość – wieczna wiosna kobiety i wieczna jesień mężczyzny.”
Love is woman's eternal spring, man's eternal fall. (ang.)
Źródło: A Guide to Men http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30630/pg30630.txt, wyd. Dodge Publishing Company, Nowy Jork 1922.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. (ang.)
Źródło: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31700/pg31700.txt, wyd. Dodge Publishing Company, Nowy Jork 1909.
„Najtrudniejsze zadanie życia kobiety to dowieść mężczyźnie, że ma poważne zamiary.”
The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. (ang.)
Źródło: A Guide to Men http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30630/pg30630.txt, wyd. Dodge Publishing Company, Nowy Jork 1922.
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. (ang.)
Źródło: A Guide to Men http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30630/pg30630.txt, wyd. Dodge Publishing Company, Nowy Jork 1922.
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.”
Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/975693.Helen_Rowland
Other
Cymbals and Kettle-drums
A Guide to Men (1922)
Overture: Prelude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_20
A Guide to Men (1922)
Fourth Interlude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_93
A Guide to Men (1922)
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
Syncopations
A Guide to Men (1922)