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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
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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.
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There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.
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A good woman is known by what she does a good man by what he doesn't.
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There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
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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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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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And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
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Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
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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.
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Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
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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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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.
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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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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.
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A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
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