A stitch in time saves nine

Cultural  

1. A little preventive maintenance can eliminate the need for major repairs later. (See also An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.)

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Example Sentences

Every good housewife knows that there is a world of truth in the old maxim, "A stitch in time saves nine."

From The Road and the Roadside by Potter, Burton Willis

Small Porges was laboriously inscribing in a somewhat splashed and besmeared copy-book the rather surprising facts that: A stitch in time, saves nine.

From The Money Moon A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

"A stitch in time saves nine," said Mr Scruby, meaning to insinuate that a pound in time might have the same effect.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

Example—The proverb, "A stitch in time saves nine", is chosen.

From School, Church, and Home Games by Draper, George Orrin

"I die happy," "A stitch in time saves nine," &c., &c.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870 by Various