Quotes on Punctuality

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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

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.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

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