Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Tide, Ebb, Flow

A flow will have an ebb.

After ebb comes flood and friends with good.Dutch.

After high floods come low ebbs.Dutch.

Every flood hath its ebb.Dutch.

Every tide hath its ebb.

The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.Shakespeare.