...wrote him one of her highly emotional letters: Dear Brian, This keeps coming up in my mind—There is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, at the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full...

...opportunity. Of course Shakespeare puts it better - in Julius Caesar this time: 'There comes a time in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on'. In today's business world, where secure employment and promotion prospects tend to be transitory, everyone...

...have only to report on the varied fruits and felicities of a thoroughly successive voyage. " There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Neglected,— all the voyage of his life, Is bound in shallows." But though, in consequence...

...Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2). 2. To be or not to be, that is the question (Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1). 3. There is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune (Julius Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1). 4. Conscience doth make cowards of us all (Hamlet, Act...

...hinting at the general source whence they have obtained their information. As SHAKSPERE says : " There is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." Now, therefore, is our opportunity for attack, and we must not allow it to slip. The allopathic...

...of Nelson and Collingwood, we are persuaded it is only that they have lacked opportunity — that " tide in the affairs of man which taken at the flood leads on to honour." But, as Jack says, " if you're senor and I'm senor, who's to pull the boat a shore?" that...

...Christians. And some become worldly, and encourage the doubt that they ever were Christians. That " tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," of which Shakspeare wrote, occurs to the Christian at the time of his conversion, when...