Helen Rowland Quotes

• One man’s folly is another man’s wife.

  Helen Rowland

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

  Helen Rowland

• No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.

  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

• Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

  Helen Rowland

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

  Helen Rowland

• It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

  Helen Rowland

• It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

  Helen Rowland

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

  Helen Rowland

• In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

  Helen Rowland

• France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are “made in America.”

  Helen Rowland

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

  Helen Rowland

• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  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

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

• Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

  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

Helen Rowland (66)

Birth:	1875
Death:	1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Helen Rowland was born in Washington, D.C., USA. She was an American journalist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World newspaper called Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, and A Guide to Men.

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