Just topping up my rusty fix...

Seems there are lots of people in Blogland suffering withdrawal symptoms today...

I'm one among many it seems...

For me it's a lack of Rusty Stuff...

Ahhhhhhh......

That feels so much better......

The idiom time and tide wait for no man suggests that people should act without delay... have you ever wondered about the origin of such sayings?

Here are a few suggestions for the origin of the time and tide idiom:

For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nil no [will no] man abyde.
[c 1390 Chaucer]

The Tyde abydeth no man.
[c 1520 Anonymous]

Tyde nor time tarrieth no man.
[1592 Greene]

Time and tide tary on no man.
[1639 Clarke]

Let's step into the state-room, and turn in: Time and tide waits for no one.
[1767 Barton]

Come, come, master, let us get afloat. ‥Time and tide wait for no man.
[1822 Scott]

This one's obviously not an original, but it made me smile...

Time and tide wait for no man. ‘And a school bus waits for no boy.’
[2002 Washington Post]