Helen Rowland Quotes (98 Quotes)


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

    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.

    A good woman is known by what she does a good man by what he doesn't.

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

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



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


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

    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.

    Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

    There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.


    A good woman inspires a man a brilliant woman interests him a beautiful woman fascinates him and a sympathetic woman gets him.

    Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

    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.

    Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

    A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

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

    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?

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

    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.

    Every once in a while nature stops experimenting and creates a man.

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

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

    The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.

    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.

    There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

    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."

    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.

    Love woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

    When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's mad.

    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.

    What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

    The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling

    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.

    Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.


    No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree she just naturally becomes a 'Master of Arts' and a 'Doctor of Philosophy' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

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

    To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely. . .

    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.

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

    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.

    Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he'll end.

    The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

    In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

    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.

    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.

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


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