(86 quotes found)
“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.”
Helen Rowland
“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 never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
“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.”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person”
“And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.”
“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.”