"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs……" — Helen Rowland
"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification."
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Helen Rowland
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99 Quotes by Helen Rowland
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The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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A fool and her money are soon courted.
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife…
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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…
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There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives…
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When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one…
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Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
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It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
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To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he…
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Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are…
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More Cynic Quotes
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real…
— Kristen Bell
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
— Joyce Brothers
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
— Irving Layton
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and…
— James Gould Cozzens
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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