Helen Rowland Quotes

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

Home, Person, Four

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.
Helen Rowland

Life, Person, Same

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

Life, Marriage, Down

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Made, Times

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

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

Sometimes, Head, Top

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
Helen Rowland

Thought, Become, Personal

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Woman, Him

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

Time, Good, Heart

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

Women, Men, Woman

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
Helen Rowland

You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
Helen Rowland

Love, Heart, Place

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

Nothing, Lost, May

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland

Art, Making, Himself

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Helen Rowland

Jealousy, Tie, Binds

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland

Love, Money, Divorce

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

Beauty, Idea, Quite

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland

Between, Dangerous, Lovers

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Helen Rowland

After, Keep, Lovers

A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland

Money, Fool, Her

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

Love, After, Wine

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland

Work, Women, Hate

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

Love, Women, Art

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Helen Rowland

May, Made, America

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1875

Died: 1950

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