Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
~ Helen Rowland - [Trust]

Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.
~ Helen Rowland - [Persuasion]

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~ Helen Rowland - [Relationships]

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
~ Helen Rowland - [Reputation]

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
~ Helen Rowland - [Sacrifice]

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 - [Lies and Lying]

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
~ Helen Rowland - [Love]

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
~ Helen Rowland - [Lovers]

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
~ Helen Rowland - [Lovers]

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
~ Helen Rowland - [Marriage]

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 - [Marriage]

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 - [Marriage]

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
~ Helen Rowland - [Marriage]

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
~ Helen Rowland - [Marriage]

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
~ Helen Rowland - [Marriage]

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
~ Helen Rowland - [Men]

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.
~ Helen Rowland - [Men]

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~ Helen Rowland - [Men and Women]

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
~ Helen Rowland - [Men and Women]

A fool and her money are soon courted.
~ Helen Rowland - [Money]