Quotes About Patience

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Few men can afford to be angry.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Men should come with instruction booklets.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.