Quotes About Patience

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

Be kind to an old man.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

Beware the anger of a patient man.