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

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

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
~ John F. Boyes

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

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

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
~ Nathaniel Emmons

Punctuality is the soul of business.
~ Thomas C. Haliburton

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

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
~ Edgar Watson Howe

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
~ Franklin P. Jones

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
~ Louis XVIII

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

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

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

I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
~ Lord Nelson

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
~ Lord Nelson

The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
~ French Proverb

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
~ William Shakespeare