Helen Rowland Quotes

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

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.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

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

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

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.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

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

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

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.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

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.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

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

a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

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.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a custom which is still continued.

Love the quest marriage the conquest divorce the inquest.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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