Helen Rowland Quotes

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

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.

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

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

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

You will never win if you never begin.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

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

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

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.