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."

“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

All Quotes by 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

Art

“A fool and her money are soon courted.”

— Helen Rowland

Money

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

— Helen Rowland

Jealousy

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

— Helen Rowland

Trust

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

— Helen Rowland

Money

“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

Nature

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

— 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

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

— Helen Rowland

Age

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

Women

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

— Helen Rowland

Home

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

— Helen Rowland

Funny

“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

Art

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

— Helen Rowland

Faith

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

— Helen Rowland

Wedding