Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Time and tide wait for no man.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

Wait.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface