Words matter. These are the best Helen Rowland Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
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.
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.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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.
The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
The hardest task in a girl’s life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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.
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.
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 snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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.
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.
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.
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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.
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.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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.
In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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.
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.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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 man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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?
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
You will never win if you never begin.
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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.
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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.
You will never win if you never begin.
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.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit – except being there when he doesn’t want her.
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 husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
