Al Franken Quotes

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

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

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.

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.

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.

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.