Famous Helen Rowland Quotations

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"Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."
by Helen Rowland
"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."
by Helen Rowland
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."
by Helen Rowland
"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America."
by Helen Rowland
"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
by Helen Rowland
"A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
by Helen Rowland
"A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't."
by Helen Rowland
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."
by Helen Rowland
"A man's folly is another man's wife."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."
by Helen Rowland
"For one man's chin is as rough as another's, and one man's lies are as smooth as another's"
by Helen Rowland
"Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain."
by Helen Rowland
"Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near."
by Helen Rowland
"Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion"
by Helen Rowland
"One man's folly is another man's wife."
by Helen Rowland
"The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is."
by Helen Rowland
"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
by Helen Rowland
"To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end."
by Helen Rowland
"When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one"
by Helen Rowland
"When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."
by Helen Rowland
"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."
by Helen Rowland
"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 more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."
by Helen Rowland
"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."
by Helen Rowland
"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
by Helen Rowland
"The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head."
by Helen Rowland
"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
by Helen Rowland
"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?"
by Helen Rowland
"The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."
by Helen Rowland
"Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself."
by Helen Rowland
"A fool and her money are soon courted."
by Helen Rowland
"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."
by Helen Rowland
"In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced."
by Helen Rowland
"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."
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."
by Helen Rowland
"Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"
by Helen Rowland
"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..."
by Helen Rowland


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