Proverb 4
- Aug 2, 2016
- 1 min read
"Be thy woman or man, there's a tide and a dam."
Meaning:-
I've changed this one from it's original form to make it more reflective of both sexes (songs that exclude men or women don't sell many copies! lol) and so that it fitted into the song I wrote.
Original:-
"There's a tide in the affairs of man."
It means, in the ebb and flow of our lives it's important to act at the most opportune moment; the most favourable time.
The proverb appears to originate in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (4:3)
"There is a time 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."
Lord Byron also used the semantic in Don Juan (1819).
"There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which taken at the flood, you know the rest,/ And most of us have found it now and then;/ At least we think so, though few have guess'd/ The moment, till too late to come again."
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