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."

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

— Helen Rowland

Funny

All Quotes by 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

Women

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

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

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

— Helen Rowland

Imagination

“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

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

— Helen Rowland

Faith

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

— 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

“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

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

— Helen Rowland

Wedding

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

— Helen Rowland

Age

“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

“A fool and her money are soon courted.”

— Helen Rowland

Money

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

— Helen Rowland

Beauty

“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

“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

“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

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

— Helen Rowland

Funny

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

— Helen Rowland

Marriage

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

— Helen Rowland

Art

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

— Helen Rowland

Trust