Quote

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé at thirty, almost senile at forty, not so old and at fifty, positively skittish.

Helen Rowland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
Humorist
Journalist
Thirty
Blas
Twenty
Skittish
Twenties
Senile
Almost
Awfully
Feels
Aged
Men
Positively
Forty
Fifty

More quotes by Helen Rowland

Image
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
Image
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
Image
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
Image
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.
Helen Rowland
Image
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
Image
Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!
Helen Rowland
Image
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
Image
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
Image
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
Helen Rowland
Image
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.
Helen Rowland
Image
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
Helen Rowland
Image
A good woman is known by what she does a good man by what he doesn't.
Helen Rowland
Image
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
Helen Rowland
Image
Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
Helen Rowland
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Helen Rowland
Image
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.
Helen Rowland
Image
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland