Please Be Punctual Quotes

#1. If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

#2. It had very punctual prophets. You could set your calendar by them, if you had one big enough.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Mystery at Geneva

Rose Macaulay

#4. But least is he who, with enchanted eyes
Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be,
Muses which god he shall immortalize
In the proud Parian's perpetuity,
Till twilight warns him from the punctual skies
That the night cometh wherein none shall see.

Edith Wharton

#5. You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#6. 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

#7. Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

Warren Buffett

#8. CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Alexander Hamilton

#9. The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Laurence J. Peter

#10. To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. 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.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#12. You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

Elisabeth Of Wied

#13. Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

Cindy Crawford

#14. Mr. Franklin kept a horn book always in his pocket in which he minuted all his invitations to dinner, and Mr. Lee said it was the only thing in which he was punctual

Walter Isaacson

#15. Most leave to be on time, thus always late.

Brian Spellman

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

Billy Wilder

#17. 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.

Daesung

#18. The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

Charles Dickens

#19. If the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.

Knight Mayor

#20. Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

Bill O'Reilly

#21. May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems
when they pay for coats.

Lord Byron

#22. Take seriously. Make punctual. Be cool and easy. Remember - everything you do, you do for God. And everything God does, He do for you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. [bookcover:A Punctual Paymaster|25707312]
"Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear."
Dan Groat

Dan Groat

#24. 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.

Nayantara

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

John Milton

#26. The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ...

Rose Macaulay

#27. Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

#28. Be punctual; it shows your respect for other people.

Archibald Marwizi

#29. 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.

Roland Barthes

#30. 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!

Bayard Taylor