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| Helen Rowland
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. 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'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 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. 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. 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. 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. Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution -such call I good books. 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. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.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 takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. 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. No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. 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. Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. 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. 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 you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. |
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