Helen Rowland Quotes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

Love, Sense, Common

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.
Helen Rowland

Him, Ignore, Run

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

Two, Understand, Another

One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland

Funny, Wife, Another

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

Fool, Woman, Him

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

Love, Happy, Woman

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland

Love, Faith, Taken

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland

Woman, Goodbye, Knows

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

Fool, Woman, Him

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland

Trust, Husband, Far

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

Marriage, Husband, After

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.
Helen Rowland

Love, Heart, Woman

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

Marriage, Husband, Wife

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

Kiss, Rest, Second

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

Heart, Woman, May

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.
Helen Rowland

Wise, Woman, Her

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.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Woman, Others

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland

Wedding, Marriage, Her

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.
Helen Rowland

Heart, Woman, May

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

Nature, Forget, Help

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.
Helen Rowland

Art, Married, Lies

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

Wedding, Woman, Her

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

Woman, Sinner, Wit

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.
Helen Rowland

Time, Heart, Trying

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Helen Rowland

Home, Person, Four

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1875

Died: 1950

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