Helen Rowland Quotations | Page 2

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

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.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.