Tardiness Quotes

• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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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

  Time, Procrastination, People

  365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

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• A tardiness in nature,
  Which often leaves the history unspoke,
  That it intends to do.

  William Shakespeare

  Diffidence

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.174, A&C Black

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Giving, Stones, Speak

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Until Death”

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• Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  Manuel Puig

  Hygiene, Literature, Nervous

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• Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Late

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• Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

  William Whipple

  Business, Important, Three

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• A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fire, Age, Desire

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• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Space, Flying

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• When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

  Dane Cook

  Falling In Love, People, Bags

  "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.

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