Helen Rowland Quotes
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There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
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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.
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Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
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There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
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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.
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the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
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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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Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
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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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Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.
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Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
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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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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.
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A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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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.
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A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
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Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
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A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
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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.'
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The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
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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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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.
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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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