“Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica
“It is vital now to see this [Brexit] moment for what it is. This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt, but it is a moment for hope and ambition for Britain. A time not to fight against the tide of history, but to take that tide at the flood, and sail on to fortune.”
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
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "It is vital now to see this [Brexit] moment for what it is. This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should…" by Boris Johnson?
Boris Johnson 119
British politician, historian and journalist 1964Related quotes
Brutus, Act IV, scene iii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
“We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history.”
Bill Clinton
(1946) 42nd President of the United States
State of the Union address (January 27, 2000)
2000s
Nelson Mandela
(1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Nelson Mandela on Aids, 46664 Concert, Tromso, Norway (11 Jun 2005). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
2000s
Source: The Almost Moon
Matteo Messina Denaro
(1962) Italian mob boss
Letter seized in a 1993 raid of his home in Mazara Del Vallo
“5049. Time and Tide tarry for no Man.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
Marino Faliero (1885)
Context: A poor man's wrong and mine and all the world's,
Diverse and individual, many and one,
Insufferable of long-suffering less than God's,
Of all endurance unendurable else,
Being come to flood and fullness now, the tide
Is risen in mine as in the sea's own heart
To tempest and to triumph. Not for nought
Am I that wild wife's bridegroom — old and hoar,
Not sapless yet nor soulless.