Helen Rowland Men Quotations

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

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

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

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

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

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.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

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

There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly.

Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he'll end

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

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

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

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

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

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

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

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

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

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

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

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

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

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.