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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 good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
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When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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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.
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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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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 always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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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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Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
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Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!
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