He urged us to hurry, saying 'time and tide wait for no man.'

He believed in the proverb 'good things come to those who wait', and continued to wait patiently.

Will you marry me?

"Do you want to have a meal? Take a bath? Or choose me?" she said jokingly.

She used to be a prostitute, but now she has started a new life.

He was hiding the fact that he was an illegitimate child.

I'm sorry, but I don't speak Japanese.

I'm a Muslim, so I fast during Ramadan.

I'm Jewish.

He has done everything he can to prepare for the exam, and now he is in a state of 'doing all that is humanly possible and waiting for fate to take its course'.