Helen Rowland Quotes About Marriage

Quotes about: Marriage

• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Single, Divorce

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.70, Lulu.com

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

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  "A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Book by Helen Rowland. Chapter: "Second Marriages", 1922.

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

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  A Guide to Men prelude (1922)

• 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

  Funny, Birthday, Marriage

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Spring, Hands

• 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, Husband, Women

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Girl

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Sacrifice

• 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

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Men

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

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Humorous, Food

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Kissing, Miracle

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.39, Lulu.com

• Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Ends, Worst

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Men, Vanity

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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