Timely blossom, timely fruit. [ Proverb ]

Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies. [ Gay ]

Timely advised, the coming evil shun;
Better not do the deed, than weep it done. [ Prior ]

Timely and wise fear of danger prevents danger. [ Proverb ]

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. [ George MacDonald ]

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. [ Tupper ]

The timely dew of sleep, now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines our eyelids. [ Milton ]

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]