“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
More from Marlene Dietrich on Relationships
“Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.”
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Others on Relationships
Khaled Hosseini
5 quotes“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
H. L. Mencken
5 quotes“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
Lisa Kleypas
5 quotes“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
Richelle Mead
5 quotes“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
Sarah Dessen
5 quotes“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”
Christopher Hitchens
4 quotes“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off”
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Balzac
4 quotes“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Daniel Handler
4 quotes“We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.”
Alexandre Dumas
4 quotes“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendshi...”
Joyce Brothers
4 quotes“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
George Washington
4 quotes“True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled t...”