Helen Rowland Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.