Eleanor Mondale Quotes

I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!

If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.

I've dated bad girls in my time.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.