Quotes By Helen Rowland

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 fool and her money are soon courted.

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.

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.

Variety is the spice of love.

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