Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland · From the "Divorces" section of her second book of reflections.

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 · The popular version trims "go home" and turns "go to sleep" into "fall asleep".

Helen Rowland · From the Prelude of her 1922 collection of epigrams, written as a New York newspaper columnist who called herself the Bachelor Girl.

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