“A stitch in five saves fifteen or whatever - Another re-evaluation by Karl of the phrase 'A stitch in time saves nine”

“6291. A Stitch in Time
May save nine.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

China Miéville book The Scar

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

“Hugh should’ve brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

Augusten Burroughs book Magical Thinking

“[W]hen I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own.”

Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author