I suppose the fact is that no friendship can stand the breakfast test.... Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that... hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair, and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent,... on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praisworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crum...pet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soul shrinks ... From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessed day, And cries, "Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »