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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
Humorist
Journalist
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A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
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A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
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A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
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A man is like a cat chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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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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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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A fool and her money are soon courted.
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When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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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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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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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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Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
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A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
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the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
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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.
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