[10:1] You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 262.

Strike whilst the iron is hot.—Rabelais: book ii. chap. xxxi. Webster: Westward Hoe. Tom A'Lincolne. Farquhar: The Beaux' Stratagem, iv. 1.

[10:2]

Hoist up saile while gale doth last,

Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Robert Southwell: St. Peter's Complaint. 1595.

Nae man can tether time or tide.—Burns: Tam O' Shanter.

[10:3]

Fast bind, fast find;

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.