Quotes About Patience

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Life's too short for chess.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Home wasn't built in a day.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.