250 Quotes by Helen Rowland

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

Matrimony is the price of love – divorce, the rebate.

Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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.

True love isn’t the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.