Quotes About Patience

Golf is a four-letter word.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against.

Do not watch too closely cogs in the wheel of time. Observe their passing as the rhythm of a poem — not clicks of the abacus.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.

It's only Tuesday and I'm already 95% done with this week.

Part of me is thinking: It's Wednesday already! And the other part of me is thinking: What do you mean it's only Wednesday?!

A good garden may have some weeds.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have countered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

Weed 'em and reap.

Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many.

But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

Not at home to callers Says the naked tree – Jacket due in April. Wishing you good day.

hiding in my winter cocoon not coming out again until June

Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them.

Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off.