Top 100 Helen Rowland Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of ’the heart.”

— Helen Rowland

52. “True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.”

— Helen Rowland

53. “One man’s folly is another man’s wife.”

— Helen Rowland

54. “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

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

57. “Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.”

— Helen Rowland

58. “When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.”

— Helen Rowland

59. “There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.”

— Helen Rowland

60. “Love: woman’s eternal spring and man’s eternal fall.”

— Helen Rowland

61. “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

62. “Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite – everything seems so flat and tasteless.”

— Helen Rowland

63. “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.”

— Helen Rowland

64. “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

65. “The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

67. “When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that’s a few steps ahead is the one that’s mad.”

— Helen Rowland

68. “Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.”

— Helen Rowland

69. “Variety is the spice of love.”

— Helen Rowland

70. “Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.”

— Helen Rowland

71. “Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.”

— Helen Rowland

72. “When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.”

— Helen Rowland

73. “No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a “Master of Arts” and a “Doctor of Philosophy” after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.”

— Helen Rowland

74. “Some widowers are bereaved – others, relieved.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

76. “Never worry for fear you have broken a man’s heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week’s rest will put it in perfect working condition again.”

— Helen Rowland

77. “Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

80. “A man’s ideal woman is the one he couldn’t get.”

— Helen Rowland

81. “For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man’s love affairs have History blushing with envy.”

— Helen Rowland

82. “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

83. “A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.”

— Helen Rowland

84. “Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.”

— Helen Rowland

85. “Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.”

— Helen Rowland

86. “Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.”

— Helen Rowland

87. “To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

89. “Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.”

— Helen Rowland

90. “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

91. “A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he’s married to one.”

— Helen Rowland

92. “Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it “cooing”; after marriage, he calls it nagging.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

94. “A fool and her money are soon courted.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

96. “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

97. “Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony – but most of them are merely poor dodgers.”

— Helen Rowland

98. “The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.”

— Helen Rowland

99. “There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.”

— Helen Rowland

100. “Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.”

— Helen Rowland