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The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
-Proverb
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People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.
-Proverb
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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
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
-Samuel Beckett
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
-John F. Boyes
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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
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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
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
-Nathaniel Emmons
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
-Thomas C. Haliburton
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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
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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
-Edward W. Howe
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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
-Franklin P. Jones
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
-Louis XVIII
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
-E. V. Lucas
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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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
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
-Don Marquis
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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
-Marilyn Monroe
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I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
-Marilyn Monroe
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I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
-Lord Nelson
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I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
-Lord Nelson
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
-William Shakespeare
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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
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I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.
-E. V. Verrall
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If you're there before it's over, you're on time.
-James J. Walker
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Books about Punctuality
