Quotes About Patience

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

I've always liked fast cars and slow women.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!