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Author: Helen Rowland Page 2
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Husbands
Marriage
Sleep
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Characteristics
Honesty
Husbands
Lies
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Family
Mothers
People
Relationships
Time
Women
Twenty years
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
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Men
People
Women
Kiss
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
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Men
People
Women
The man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Characteristics
Men
People
Relationships
Sons
To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Emotions
Happiness
Love
People
Women
Understand
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Emotions
Intelligence
Love
Common sense
Imagination
Uncorking
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Communication
Husbands
Marriage
Speech
Time
Wives
Newspapers
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Men
People
Wives
Folly
Infidelity
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
(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Husbands
Marriage
Wives
Vision
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