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
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. – Helen Rowland
After marriage, a womans sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a mans so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. – Helen Rowland
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. – Niccolo Machiavelli