Quotes About Patience

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.

It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.