Al Goldstein Quotes

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.

I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

I don't know what kept us together. Initially, both of us were hotheaded, so we would end up fighting a lot. But there was a lot of love and respect, too, I guess. I believe that's the key to a successful marriage.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?