Dick Smothers Quotes

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!

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

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.'

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

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.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

Marriage is not just about love. It is more than that. It is about commitment, giving, taking, and understanding.

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

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.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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.

Marriage is hard work, period.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

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.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.