1875-1950, American Journalist
''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Helen Rowland – [Home]
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland – [Bachelor]
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland – [Bachelor]
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland – [Marriage]
A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland – [Money]
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland – [Husbands]
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.''
Helen Rowland – [Faults]
A 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 – [Fathers and Sons]
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.
Helen Rowland – [Widowhood]
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 – [Wisdom]
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]
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland – [Lovers]
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]
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.
Helen Rowland – [Heartbreak]
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.
Helen Rowland – [Infidelity]
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Helen Rowland – [Absence]
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Helen Rowland – [Love]
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland – [Flirting]
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''
Helen Rowland – [Divorce]