Zitat des Tages von Helen Rowland:
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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.
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.
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.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
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.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
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.
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.
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.
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 bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
One man's folly is another man's wife.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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.'
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.
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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.
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
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.