Quotes About Patience

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.