Punctuality
» “Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.”
– Gerald Barzan
» ”We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
– Samuel Beckett
» ”Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.”
– John F. Boyes
» ”If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.”
– Richard Cecil
» ”Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
– Lord Chesterfield
» ”I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
– Nathaniel Emmons
» ”Punctuality is the soul of business.”
– Thomas C. Haliburton
» ”Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
– William Hazlitt
» ”Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.”
– Edgar Watson Howe
» ”The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
– Franklin P. Jones
» ”Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”
– Louis XVIII
» ”Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
» ”Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.”
– Horace Mann
» ”Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
– Don Marquis
» ”I have been on a calendar, but never on time.”
– Marilyn Monroe
» ”I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.”
– Marilyn Monroe
» ”I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.”
– Lord Nelson
» ”I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.”
– Lord Nelson
» ”The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”
– French Proverb
» ”Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
– William Shakespeare
» ”Better never than late.”
– George Bernard Shaw
» ”Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”
– Charles Simmons
» ”I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.”
– E. V. Verrall
» ”If you’re there before it’s over, you’re on time.”
– James J. Walker
» ”Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
– Evelyn Waugh
» ”He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
– Oscar Wilde
» ”Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.”
– Oscar Wilde
