Helen Rowland Quotes

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

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.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Marriage: a souvenir of love.

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.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

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 ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

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

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.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

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

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

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

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

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

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

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

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

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

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

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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

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.

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.

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.