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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. - John Frederick Boyes The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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 Method and punctuality are so little natural to man that where they exist they are commonly the effect of education or discipline. - William Benton Clulow I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. - Nathaniel Emmons I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life. - Wilbur Fisk Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue. - Benjamin Franklin It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point. - Jean de la Fontaine 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 I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. - Lord Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson Regularity is unity; unity is godlike. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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