Helen Rowland

Helen Rowland

31 quotes

Helen Rowland, an American journalist, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. With equal ease, Helen Rowland moved between Marriage and Women, finding connections others missed. Discover 35 of Helen Rowland's most memorable quotes, ranging across Marriage, Women, Art, Wedding, and Money. A favorite of many readers: "There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."

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“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

Imagination

All Quotes by 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

Food

“After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.”

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

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

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

“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

Marriage

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

— Helen Rowland

Wedding

“A fool and her money are soon courted.”

— Helen Rowland

Money

“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

Marriage

“One man's folly is another man's wife.”

— Helen Rowland

Funny

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

— Helen Rowland

Women

“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”

— Helen Rowland

Trust

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

— Helen Rowland

Imagination

“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

“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

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

— Helen Rowland

Beauty

“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

Women

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

— Helen Rowland

Money

“Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.”

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

“Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.”

— Helen Rowland

Home

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

— Helen Rowland

Faith

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

— Helen Rowland

Age