A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE
This is well known proverb " A Stitch in Time Saves Nine " literally refers to the mending of clothes before they become irreparable. What is true of clothes is true for anything that needs mending. The advantage of a stitch in time does not limit fabrics alone. Figuratively, it refers to health, medicine, morals, education and politics. We have often heard a doctor telling his patient that an earlier consultation would have avoided the patient painfull suffering. A popular story of the son who had turned into a thief and finally went to the prison. He wished his mother had used the ' timely stitch ' . On a larger perspective, the French Revolution could have been avoided had the French bureaucrats been intelligent enough to appease the people in time. In our personal lives, too, the timely stitches are of immense value. Before our wayward tendencies can turn into confirmed habits, let us apply the stitch in time.
Our ancestors must have realized the importance of ' timely stitches ' and store their wisdom in this proverb for us to benefit by it. They have done their duty. Let us do ours.
This is well known proverb " A Stitch in Time Saves Nine " literally refers to the mending of clothes before they become irreparable. What is true of clothes is true for anything that needs mending. The advantage of a stitch in time does not limit fabrics alone. Figuratively, it refers to health, medicine, morals, education and politics. We have often heard a doctor telling his patient that an earlier consultation would have avoided the patient painfull suffering. A popular story of the son who had turned into a thief and finally went to the prison. He wished his mother had used the ' timely stitch ' . On a larger perspective, the French Revolution could have been avoided had the French bureaucrats been intelligent enough to appease the people in time. In our personal lives, too, the timely stitches are of immense value. Before our wayward tendencies can turn into confirmed habits, let us apply the stitch in time.
Our ancestors must have realized the importance of ' timely stitches ' and store their wisdom in this proverb for us to benefit by it. They have done their duty. Let us do ours.
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