#punctual

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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

— Billy Wilder

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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

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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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