The tide tarrieth no man.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Tam o' Shanter.

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;

And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;

Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 104.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!

I am so weary of toil and of tears,—

Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!

Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911): Rock me to sleep.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

That ever lived in the tide of times.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 1.

The tide tarrieth no man.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

Even at the turning o' the tide.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Without a breeze, without a tide,

She steadies with upright keel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.