Adventure Quote by Jan Struther Download Open image “Punctuality is the thief of adventure.” — Jan Struther ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Punctuality Thieves
“Punctuality is one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination... — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
