Helen Rowland Quotes

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• The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. Flirty
• The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. Chief
• A fool and her money are soon courted. Courted
• Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. Duty
• An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. Condition
• 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… Go
• There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. Apparent
• When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad. Ahead
• Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it Die
• It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark. Bushel
• To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he… Brilliant
• Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh. Bite
• Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. Ashtray
• Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry. Boy
• There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way. Death
• Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain. Bargain
• Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. Eternal
• Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married. Bit
• A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him. Beautiful
• A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. Firsts

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