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  • The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7
  • Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  • 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
  • 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".
  • It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

    Inspiring   Time   Fog  
    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.

    Dream   Stars   Wall  
    Pablo Neruda, “Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love,”
  • Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

    Attributed, in 'Souvenirs de J. Lafitte' (1844) bk. 1, ch. 3
  • He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

    "The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".
  • Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.

  • 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
  • School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

  • Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

  • We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

    Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2
  • 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.

  • Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

    William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56
  • The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

  • The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

  • Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

  • 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
  • Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

    Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.318, Penguin
  • It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

    "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, p. 928, 1915.
  • People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

    Source: www.irinnews.org
  • 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
  • People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

    Source: www.irinnews.org
  • The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.

    Country   Teacher   Iron  
  • Punctuality is the sole of business.

  • When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

    Running   Men   Rivals  
    "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.
  • Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

    Jan Struther (1938). “Try anything twice: essays and sketches”
  • Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

    Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin
  • I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

    Love   Men   Class  
    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
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