Quotes By Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You will never win if you never begin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.