Helen Rowland Quotes & Sayings

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. — Helen Rowland

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. — Helen Rowland

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

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. — Helen Rowland

You will never win if you never begin. — Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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. — Helen Rowland

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland

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? — Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith. — Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. — Helen Rowland

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

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

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him. — Helen Rowland

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland

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

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

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. — Helen Rowland

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. — Helen Rowland

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

Variety is the spice of love. — Helen Rowland

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. — Helen Rowland

Some widowers are bereaved
others, relieved. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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

Results for A man is like a cat; chase him and he'll run; sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland

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

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

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. — Helen Rowland

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one. — Helen Rowland

One man's folly is another man's wife. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. — Helen Rowland

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. — Helen Rowland

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

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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? — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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

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

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. — Helen Rowland

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns. — Helen Rowland

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

Love is a matter of give and take
marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake. — Helen Rowland

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

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. — Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. — Helen Rowland

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

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

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. — Helen Rowland

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

Marriage: a souvenir of love. — Helen Rowland

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. — Helen Rowland

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. — Helen Rowland

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