Helen Rowland Quotes
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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.
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.
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.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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.
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.
The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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.
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.'
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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.
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?
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.
Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
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.
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
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.
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
