Marriage Quotes by Helen Rowland

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

— Helen Rowland

One man's folly is another man's wife.

— Helen Rowland

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

— Helen Rowland

Marriage: a souvenir of love.

— Helen Rowland

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

— Helen Rowland

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

— Helen Rowland

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

— Helen Rowland

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

— Helen Rowland

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

— Helen Rowland

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

— Helen Rowland

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the…

— Helen Rowland

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other…

— Helen Rowland

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts"…

— Helen Rowland

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same…

— Helen Rowland

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that…

— Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

— Helen Rowland

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see…

— Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a…

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

— Helen Rowland

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

— Helen Rowland

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

— Helen Rowland

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

— Helen Rowland

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

— Helen Rowland

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

— Helen Rowland

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

— Helen Rowland

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

— Helen Rowland

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

— Helen Rowland

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

— Helen Rowland

A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit

— Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

— Helen Rowland

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues.

— Helen Rowland

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

— Helen Rowland

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

— Helen Rowland