
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 27
Referring to the adverse sun conditions in left field at Yankee Stadium.
Yogiisms
Variant: It gets late awfully early around here.[citation needed]
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”