Explore Quotes by Helen Rowland

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

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

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.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

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

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.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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

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.

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.'

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.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

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.

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