“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
Money
“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.”
AgeAll Quotes by Helen Rowland
“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.”
Marriage“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
Wedding“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
Jealousy“When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
Women“A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
Beauty“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.”
Nature“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.”
Marriage“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
Trust“Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.”
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.”
Marriage“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.”
Food“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.”
Women“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.”
Women“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.”
Marriage“A fool and her money are soon courted.”
Money“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.”
Art“Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.”
Home“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
Imagination“One man's folly is another man's wife.”
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