Wait For The Tide Quotes

#1. Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide

Ahmad Ardalan

#2. Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

John Ridley

#3. As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Edward Norton

#4. Time, tide and cocktail hour wait, as it were, for no man.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Mark Twain

#6. The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Mark Batterson

#7. Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

John Burroughs

#8. All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

Charles Kingsley

#9. Time and Tide wait for no Man; what about woman ? How Sexist !

Gaurav Rao

#10. Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

Rodney Dangerfield

#11. Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Charles Dickens

#12. But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

John Masefield

#13. Time and tide wait for no man.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#14. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.

Joseph Conrad

#15. Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Robert Frost