“Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica
“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.”
Brutus, Act IV, scene iii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.”
Variant: Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 93
Context: The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. From the last ills no being can save another; therein each man must be his own saviour. For the rest, whatever befall us, let us never train our murderous guns inboard; let us not mutiny with bloody pikes in our hands. Our Lord High Admiral will yet interpose; and though long ages should elapse, and leave our wrongs unredressed, yet, shipmates and world-mates! let us never forget, that, Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
William Hazlitt
(1778–1830) English writer
"Why Distant Objects Please"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
James Russell Lowell
(1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépend pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune.
Maxim 61.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Boris Johnson
(1964) British politician, historian and journalist
During the announcement that he would not run to become Britain's prime minister. A reference to Brutus's "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" in Julius Caesar. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/europe/britain-conservative-party.html (June 30, 2016)
2010s, 2016
Arnold Tustin
(1899–1994) British engineer
Arnold Tustin (1952) as cited in: Daniel L. Young, Seth Michelson (2011) Systems Biology in Drug Discovery and Development. p. 49
Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 73
“Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Walter Raleigh
(1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as:
"Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb"
and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi", (translated: "The deepest rivers flow with the least sound"), Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep", William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
§ I
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Context: The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the real and the unreal which leads men to enter the Path. It is this, but it is also much more; and it is to be practised, not only at the beginning of the Path, but at every step of it every day until the end. You enter the Path because you have learnt that on it alone can be found those things which are worth gaining. Men who do not know, work to gain wealth and power, but these are at most for one life only, and therefore unreal. There are greater things than these — things which are real and lasting; when you have once seen these, you desire those others no more.