A fool and her money are soon courted.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Wealth, Money
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.
—Helen Rowland
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: People
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Love
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Opportunities, Regret, Risk, Carpe-diem, Disappointment, Opportunity, Remorse
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.
—Helen Rowland
One man’s folly is often another man’s wife.
—Helen Rowland
Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest
—Helen Rowland
The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men & Women, Men
Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Home
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Divorce
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Lovers, Love, Danger
A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
What a man calls his “conscience” is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Conscience
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage, Wives
It takes some woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Criticism, Critics
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Society, Marriage
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Weddings, Marriage
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage
A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Family, Fathers, Father
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Understanding
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Optimism
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.
—Helen Rowland
No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Reputation
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Kiss, Men
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Absence
The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Women
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