“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.”
— Helen Rowland
“You will never win if you never begin.”
— Helen Rowland
“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her – when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”
— Helen Rowland
“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.”
— Helen Rowland
“Results for “A man is like a cat; chase him and he’ll run; sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet”
— Helen Rowland
“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.”
— Helen Rowland
“Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you`ve said; after marriage, he`ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.”
— 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.”
— Helen Rowland
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.”
— Helen Rowland
“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.”
— Helen Rowland
“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
— Helen Rowland
“When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
– Helen Rowland
“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.”
– Helen Rowland
“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”
– Helen Rowland
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
– Helen Rowland
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
– Helen Rowland
“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.”
– Helen Rowland
“A fool and her money are soon courted.”
– Helen Rowland
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
– Helen Rowland
“Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.”
– Helen Rowland
“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.”
– Helen Rowland
“Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.”
– 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.”
– Helen Rowland
“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.”
– Helen Rowland
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
– Helen Rowland
“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.”
– Helen Rowland
“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.”
– Helen Rowland
“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.”
– Helen Rowland
“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
– Helen Rowland
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
– Helen Rowland