Quotes from Helen Rowland

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

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

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.

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.

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

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.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

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

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

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

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.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling