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Quotes About Tardiness

I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.
~ Poppy Delevingne
We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
~ Matt Groening
It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
~ Meghan Daum
Better never than late.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Fifteen seconds later he left the house, five hours late but moving fast.
~ Douglas Adams
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~ Edward Verrall Lucas
Sorry we're late," Jason said. "Is this the guy who needs killing?
~ Rick Riordan House of Hades
It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can't stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.
~ Katherine Paterson
One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.
~ Elizabeth Peters
They came in late
~ Robert Dugoni
At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or tardiness, or for not answering difficult questions.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.
~ Kin Hubbard
Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.
~ Jim Cramer
Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They'd rather die. It's so uncool to be early.
~ Francine Pascal
I may have arrived late, but I'm here now.
~ Franz Kafka
Never be late Age and time do not wait
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Better late than never.
~ Livy
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I'm sorry we're late, but somebody decided to step in a fresh horse plop and needed a bath." He turned a mock-solemn glare at the smaller child. Crystal Ingrid looked away in the manner of a four-year-old who thinks that if she doesn't see trouble, it's not there.
~ Sherwood Smith
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
Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.
~ Alan Parry
I am always late. If I arrived early, my hostess would faint.
~ Stephanie Laurens
I was called in about twenty minutes past the appointed time.
~ Ben S. Bernanke