Helen Rowland Quotes on Man (35 Quotes)


    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.

    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 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.


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

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

    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.

    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.

    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. . .

    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.

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

    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.

    Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.

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


    Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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

    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.

    Call the bald man, 'Boy' make the sage thy toy greet the youth with solemn face praise the fat man for his grace.

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

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

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

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

    To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning to a man it's the beginning of the end.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

    Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

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

    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.


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