A Quote by John Bunyan

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

John Bunyan

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Man Nor Tide Time

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John Bunyan
English - Priest
November 30, 1628 - August 31, 1688

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

Robert Burns

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

Terry Pratchett

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

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

Robert Burns

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

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

Chris Martin

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

Charles Dickens

Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

Solomon

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether

E. W. Bullinger

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.

William Julius Mickle

There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.

Carolina Nairne

The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.