Helen Rowland Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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?”

“You will never win if you never begin.”

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

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

“There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.”

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

“Variety is the spice of love.”

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of 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.”

“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”