Time and tide wait for no man.

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.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

You don't have time in Indonesia to wait for tide gauge data.

Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty