Helen Rowland Quotes

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

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 fool and her money are soon courted.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

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.

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.

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.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

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 before you married him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

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.

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.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

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.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Variety is the spice of love.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.