Quotes By Helen Rowland

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.

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.

Variety is the spice of love.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

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

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

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

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

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

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.

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

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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."

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

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

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.

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.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

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

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.

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