Quotes for All
Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She’d let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced. Gail Carriger
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any … Read more
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. E. W. Howe
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely E. V. Lucas
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration … Read more
Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins. Dorothy Cannell
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Don Marquis