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Quotes About Patience

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
~ Anthony Trollope
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
~ Mae West
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.
~ Maurice de Saxe
a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
~ P.D. Ouspensky
A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"
~ Henny Youngman
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
~ Herbert Hoover
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
~ Horace
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
~ Jane Austen
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.
~ Robert Southwell
Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.
~ William Peter Hamilton
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
~ Ariel Durant
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
~ Blaise Pascal
You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.
~ Eric Christian Olsen
A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
~ Evan Esar
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ Francis Bacon
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
~ Marcus Aurelius
I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
~ Plutarch