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

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

- 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

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

- 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

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

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

- Helen Rowland

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

- 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

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

- 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

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

- 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 are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

- 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.

- Helen Rowland

Variety is the spice of love.

- Helen Rowland

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

- Helen Rowland

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try 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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

- Helen Rowland