Helen Rowland Quotes

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.

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

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.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

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.

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.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

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.

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

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

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

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.'

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

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.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

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

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

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.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

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

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

You will never win if you never begin.

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.

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

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman—a married man needs only an excuse.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

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

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

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

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

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

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.