30 Quotes About Lateness

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

Give, it's time to. Its time too. Time to. Time.

I wait in the lobby for an hour, he’s always really late, but this time I’ve had enough – there’s something so unmasculine about a man who’s always very late – so I give up and go home.

That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.

p.46 My tendency for lateness comes from a fear of feeling committed when early...Time is a muscle that seems to randomly flex and relax in a bid to misplace me and many others. I can't rid myself of the sensation that I'm about to fall off the world, as you might fall off the back of a treadmill.

I'm late, the kind of late that suggest I have no regard for the emotional health of my Nigerian parents who probably think I've been kidnapped by the enemies of progress.

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....

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...