Quotes About Timing

Happiness is like the pox. Catch it too soon, and it wrecks your constitution

She surprised him by agreeing. Yes, I was simply curious, and no, I would never criticize you in front of your followers. Do you have the patience to endure one more question, husband? What is it? When do you suppose you'll leave me behind?

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

Hard to choose. Wait, and let the bad things go on. Act, and maybe waste your chance anyway, because the timing's wrong. The best plan in the world can fall apart.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

Why'd you wait so long to show someone those spots, Bayard?

Wisely and slow. They stumble that ran fast. — William Shakespeare

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.