250 Quotes by Helen Rowland

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.