A net will catch more than a pole. (Russian) A new net won’t catch an old bird. (Italian) All is not fish that comes to the net. (Dutch) Cast your empty net only as far as you can draw it back full. (Irish) If the net be spread too widely, the...

In topology and related areas of mathematics a net or Moore-Smith sequence is a generalization of a sequence, intended to unify the various notions of limit and generalize them to arbitrary topological spaces. Limits of nets accomplish for all...