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  • There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

    Light   Earth   Return  
    John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.283
  • Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  • Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

    John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4
  • United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

    Hot   Muffins   Baking  
    'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 2
  • Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".
  • 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 (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics
  • We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

    Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2
  • Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

    William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56
  • I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

    Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340
  • Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

  • Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
  • The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

    "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 181, 1977.
  • Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

    Ashleigh Brilliant (1980). “I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises
  • I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

    "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.
  • I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

    Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.373
  • When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

    Fire   Land   Purple  
    Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”
  • Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing.

    Acting   Way   Actors  
  • If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

    Mean   Fate   Opposites  
    Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.346, Executive Intelligence Review
  • We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

  • 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.

  • Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

    Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.
  • I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

    Feel Good   Late   Feels  
    Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com
  • Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  • I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

    Games   Trying   Busy  
    Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books
  • The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297
  • We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

    Heart   Night   Gentleman  
    "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.
  • Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

  • Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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