Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. – Helen Rowland
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. – Helen Rowland
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. – Helen Rowland
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Helen Rowland
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – 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
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland
There’s so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who’s married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. – Helen Rowland
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. – 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
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
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
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. – 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
When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last. – Helen Rowland
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ‘made in America.’ – Helen Rowland
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet. – Helen Rowland
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest. – Helen Rowland
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. – 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
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. – Helen Rowland