Quotes By 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.

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

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.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

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

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

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.

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

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

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

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

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 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.

Variety is the spice of love.

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.

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.

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

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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