Quotes About Patience

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her.

The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.