Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

More proverbs about Perseverance

• A mouse, in time, may bite in two a cable. Persistent small efforts, repeated long enough, can eventually overcome even the stronges…
• Take time when time is, for time will away. Seize opportunities promptly; delays risk losing them forever to circumstance's passage.
• Time and tide tarry for no man. Constant natural forces—time's flow and ocean's tides—proceed indifferently; delay ensure…
• Time is the rider that breaks youth. Youth's strength and invulnerability gradually diminish as years pass and experiences acc…
• What is a workman without his tools? A skilled person stripped of necessary resources cannot apply their expertise effectively.
• Trade knows neither friends nor kindred. Business transactions dissolve personal loyalties; profit motives override familial bonds…