The same advice, in three languages — and where it stops matching.
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What a comparison looks like
Open this comparisonSomeone is deciding whether a delay is something to endure or something that will cost them the chance to act.
- English
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for nobody.
- Arabic
دوا الدهر الصبر عليه
dawāʾ ad-dahr aṣ-ṣabr ʿalayh
The remedy for hard times is patience with them.
Why connected
Both sayings are about time acting on a person who cannot control it, and a reader searching for counsel about a delay will meet them in the same results. That shared subject is the whole of the connection.
Where they differ
They give opposite advice, and the difference is which kind of delay is in front of you. The English member treats time as an opportunity that is leaving, so it argues against waiting. The Arabic member treats time as a hardship that cannot be shortened, so it argues for bearing it. Reading either as a general rule about patience reverses the other one. Neither source establishes present-day usage: Apperson records the English form from c. 1386, and Burckhardt records the Arabic as current at Cairo c. 1816-17.
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Evidence per claim
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Difference is a result
Where two sayings stop matching is shown as prominently as where they agree. No claims of universal wisdom.