Frankie Avalon Quotes

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

People expect quick results.

In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

I don't want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage.

We want instant food … instant peace. We need patience, patience, patience

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.