Quote

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

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
Love
Marriage
Mistake
Give
Matter
Take
Giving

More quotes by 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
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
Image
To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
Helen Rowland
Image
The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
Helen Rowland
Image
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Helen Rowland
Image
Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
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
A good woman is known by what she does a good man by what he doesn't.
Helen Rowland
Image
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
Image
A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
Helen Rowland
Image
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
Helen Rowland
Image
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.
Helen Rowland
Image
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
Helen Rowland
Image
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
Image
A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.
Helen Rowland