Helen Rowland Quotes About Marriage
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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.
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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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.
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One man's folly is another man's wife.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
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