250 Quotes by Helen Rowland

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion