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Quotes About Patience

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better
~ Milton Jones
After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
~ Steven Wright
if you make waffles, throw out the first one.
~ George Lopez
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
~ A.A. Milne
It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.
~ Bill Bailey
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
~ Winston S. Churchill
My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
~ Steven Wright
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
~ Marcel Achard
Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?
~ George Carlin
For two hours, some guy followed me around with a pooper scooper.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."
~ Steven Wright
I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.
~ Steven Wright
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
~ Bill Vaughan
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
~ Morrissey
What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.
~ Dave Barry
At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.
~ Kristen Schaal
Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.
~ George W. Bush
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
~ Frederick Lenz
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.
~ Marc Maron
There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
~ Bill Bailey
I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
~ Martin Luther
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
~ Henry Ward Beecher