Helen Rowland

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with…

— Helen Rowland

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but…

— Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down…

— Helen Rowland

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

— Helen Rowland

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern…

— Helen Rowland

Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when…

— Helen Rowland

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope…

— Helen Rowland

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures…

— Helen Rowland

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will…

— Helen Rowland

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his…

— Helen Rowland

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience…

— Helen Rowland

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a…

— Helen Rowland

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when…

— Helen Rowland

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

— Helen Rowland

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him…

— Helen Rowland

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a…

— Helen Rowland

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which…

— Helen Rowland

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the…

— Helen Rowland

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an…

— Helen Rowland

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him…

— Helen Rowland