A Stitch in time Saves Nine
(সময়ের এক ফোঁড় অসময়ের দশ ফোঁড়)

Ans: The wise saying counsels timely in action. Its value is great. It saves much labor & time and often prevents loss. It also advises us to take proper care of a thing lest it should go beyond the scope of it or of any use. If a work of today is put off for tomorrow, the load of work of tomorrow will be very heavy. That will demand a hurried action. We know very well that hurry spoils the curry. Work done in a hurry is not well done and hurry, in fact, does not lessen the volume of work, rather increases it. On the other hand, delay sometimes complicates the action. It becomes impossible and heavy loss is incurred. For example, if we repair a vehicle immediately after we find a fault in it we will have to spend very little. But if we do not care, faults will multiply and at a certain stage the vehicle will go beyond repair. This will incur a big loss. Similarly if a person takes proper care of his health at the initial stage of his illness and spends a little, he will be out of danger soon. But if he nurses the illness and is heedless, it may take a chronic and serious tum at the point of which he will have to spend a lot. He may go to a no return point. His life will be endangered. Pounds are spent whereas a penny would have been sufficient if timely action had been taken. So, we say, penny wise pound foolish. In certain cases prompt and timely action brings wonderful success. For, big opportunity seldom comes. That means if an opportunity is lost for the lapse of timely step, one will have to repent throughout life for such a miss. Philosophical hesitation brings nothing to one's practical life. Hamlet,
the prince of Denmark by Shakespeare, is the best example.