Quote

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

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
Dodgers
Matrimony
Merely
Achieve
Poor
Born
Men

More quotes by Helen Rowland

Image
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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 man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
Helen Rowland
Image
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
Image
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
Helen Rowland
Image
A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland
Image
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland
Image
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
Helen Rowland
Image
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
Helen Rowland
Image
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
Helen Rowland
Image
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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 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
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it cooing after marriage, he calls it nagging.
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
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
Helen Rowland