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Quotes About Patience

Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.
~ German proverb
A fast is better than a bad meal.
~ Irish proverb
Dieters live life in the fasting lane.
~ Author Unknown
It is easier to become a father than to be one.
~ German proverb
Fear is untrust of the process of life.
~ Terri Guillemets
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
~ Author Unknown
ANGLER: A man who spends rainy days sitting round on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.
~ Author Unknown
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
~ John Buchan, unverified
Gone fishin' — Be back at dark-thirty!
~ Author Unknown
Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
~ Author Unknown
You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.
~ Proverb
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
~ Proverb
Word by word the big books are made.
~ French proverb
Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here."
~ Author Unknown
Golf is just a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
~ Fran Allison, 1950s
As a matter of fact, golf is the most rigid tester of will-power in the world.
~ Arnold Haultain, 1910
Golf is long, and life is fleeting...
~ Aleister Crowley, 1907
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
~ Chinese proverb
He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.
~ Henry Taylor
There is no timetable for grieving — Grief is a snail It's a shooting star A walk around the lake It's eternity Or frost 'til bloom — Memories coursing through the heart It lasts as many heartbeats as it takes; sometimes all of them.
~ Terri Guillemets
Grief moves at its own pace.
~ Simon N. Whitney, M.D., J.D.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
~ Mark Twain
Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~ Irving Hoffman
God made time, but man made haste.
~ Irish proverb