Helen Rowland (1875-1950)

Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a newspaper column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).

Quotes

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

Marriage
Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.
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.
A husband is what's left of the lover once the nerve has been extracted.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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.
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage