The trouble with punctuality is that there is never anyone else there to appreciate it. {Previously published as letter in The Times, but my own SFAIK}.

My grandfather always said that it was better to look a fool with an umbrella on a dry day than to look a fool without an umbrella on a wet day.

My father brought me up to the principle, which I try always to follow, that half-an-hour early is better than half-a-minute late: obviously true with regard to trains &c; but a good maxim re appointments also IMO.

~M~