Helen Rowland the Journalist, biography, facts and quotes

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart"

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person"

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

"Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself"

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense"

"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"

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him"

"Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place"

"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course"

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

"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"

"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"

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one"

"It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him"

"After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him"

"A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her"

"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"

"A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant"

"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"

"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest"

"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it"

"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"

"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics.""

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted"

"A fool and her money are soon courted"

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

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

"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever"

"You will never win if you never begin"

"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification"

"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?"

"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age"

"There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly"

"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him"

"The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head"

"The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious"

"The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity"

"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"

"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever"

"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"

"One man's folly is another man's wife"

"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him"

"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"

"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing"

"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued"

"In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place"

Occup.	Journalist
From	USA
Born	1875 USA
Died	1950 USA

Helen Rowland Biography

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