Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Helen Rowland - Page 2

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.'

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

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.

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.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

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.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

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

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

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.

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

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

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

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

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.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

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.

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.

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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.

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

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

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

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

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

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.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

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

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

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

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.