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The Flood

«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
«These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: / And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Arphaxad, The Flood
«They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ark, drank, Noe, The Flood
«Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cast out, The Flood, tremble
«Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ham, Japheth, Noah, Shem, Sons of Noah, The Flood
«Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there»
«Theirs was the giant race, before the flood.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: The Flood
«There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Women | Keywords: flood, flood tide, The Flood, tide
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.»

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