Helen Rowland

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

— 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.”

— 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

“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

“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

“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.”

— Helen Rowland

“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”

— Helen Rowland

“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.”

— 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

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— 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

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

— 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

“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland