Quotes About Time

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Life is fleeting, " Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

Most people can't stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

My husband yells comments like "How long till you're ready? Throw out a date."

A faithful husband is one whose alimony check is always on time.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.