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Quotes About Time

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
~ Mary Pickford
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
~ William Wordsworth
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
~ Colin Chapman
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
~ William Shakespeare
If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.
~ John Hagee
Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
~ Lorrie Moore
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
~ Charles Lamb
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
~ Ovid
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
~ Joseph Barbera
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
~ Jonathan Carroll
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
~ Oscar Wilde
When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
~ Ray Bradbury
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
~ William Congreve
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
~ William Shakespeare
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
~ Theodore Parker
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
~ Darrell Royal
I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.
~ Peter Criss
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
~ Nicholas Sparks
My marriage has worked because I am not around much.
~ Michael Palin
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
~ Tertullian