"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
Quotes by Helen Rowland
31 quotes
Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a newspaper column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).
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Helen Rowland quotes on Love
View all Love quotes →"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."
"Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest."
"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
"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."
"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."
"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 quotes on Experience
View all Experience quotes →Helen Rowland quotes on Justice
View all Justice quotes →"After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him."
"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."
"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."
Helen Rowland quotes on Life
View all Life quotes →"When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."
"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."
"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 quotes on Nature
View all Nature quotes →Helen Rowland quotes on Motivation
View all Motivation quotes →"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it."
Helen Rowland quotes on Equality
View all Equality quotes →"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 quotes on Trust
View all Trust quotes →"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."
Helen Rowland quotes on Fashion
View all Fashion quotes →"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
Helen Rowland quotes on Food
View all Food quotes →"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
Helen Rowland quotes on Imagination
View all Imagination quotes →"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Helen Rowland quotes on Truth
View all Truth quotes →"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."
Helen Rowland quotes on Beauty
View all Beauty quotes →"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Helen Rowland quotes on Money
View all Money quotes →"A fool and her money are soon courted."
Helen Rowland quotes on Religion
View all Religion quotes →"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor."
Helen Rowland quotes on Art
View all Art quotes →"Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself."
Helen Rowland quotes on Time
View all Time quotes →"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."
Helen Rowland quotes on Wisdom
View all Wisdom quotes →"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."