Quotes from Helen Rowland

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

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.

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.

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

You will never win if you never begin.

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.

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

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

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

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

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

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

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?

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.