Helen Rowland Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

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

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

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

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

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

Variety is the spice of love.

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

A fool and her money are soon courted.

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

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.

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

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