السبت، 8 ديسمبر 2012

Contradictory Proverbs: (Part one)

1. “All good things come to those who wait”
but : “Time and tide wait for none”

Meaning of "All good things come to those who wait" is: Good things come to those who wait. It's simple, really. Those who wait are given the gift of patience. If you rush things, it becomes sloppy, and it usually turns out badly. However, if you're patient and you wait, the results are usually better.

Meaning of “Time and tide wait for none” is:
One must not
procrastinate or delay, as in Let's get on with the voting; time and tide won't wait, you know. This proverbial phrase, alluding to the fact that human events or concerns cannot stop the passage of time or the movement of the tides, first appeared about 1395 in Chaucer's Prologue to the Clerk's Tale. The alliterative beginning, time and tide, was repeated in various contexts over the years but today survives only in the proverb, which is often shortened (as above).

Meaning of such two Contradictory Proverbs:

في التأني السلامة وفي العجلة الندامة