A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: People
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
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men & Women, Romance, One liners
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?
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men & Women, Love
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men
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
The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men, Men & Women
A fool and her money are soon courted.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Wealth, Money
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Love
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men, Trust
One man’s folly is often another man’s wife.
—Helen Rowland
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Weddings, Marriage
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Relationships, Divorce
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.
—Helen Rowland
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Husbands, Marriage
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
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.
—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: Critics, Criticism
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
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Men
A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Husbands, Marriage
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage, Society
Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest.
—Helen Rowland
No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Reputation
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.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Divorce
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Marriage
Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Women
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Danger, Love, Lovers
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
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are “made in America.”
—Helen Rowland
Topics: Divorce
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