PATIENCE

Related Subjects: Haste, Philosophy, Resignation, Rest, Waiting, Worry

1. Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter.—ARISTOTLE
   

2. There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.—BURKE
   

3. Pacience is an heigh vertu certeyn.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

4. No state of life but must to patience bow:
   The tradesman must have patience for his bill;
   He must have patience who to law will go;
   And should he lose his right, more patience still;
   Yea, to prevent or heal full many a strife,
   How oft, how long must man have patience with his wife.—ROBERT DODSLEY, To Patience
   

5. Possess your soul with patience.—DRYDEN, The Hind & the Panther
   

6. Beware the fury of a patient man.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

7. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.—THOMAS HARDY, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
   

8. Arm th' obdur'd breast
   With stubborn patience as with triple steel.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

9. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.—PLAUTUS, Rudens
   

10. Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience.—Proverb
    

11. Patience, and shuffle the cards.—Proverb
    

12. Be patient, and you shall have patient children.—Proverb
    

13. Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

14. He that has patience may compass anything.—RABELAIS
    

15. Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet.—ROUSSEAU
    

16. But patience, cousin, and shuffle the cards, till our hand is a stronger one.—SCOTT, Quentin Durward
    

17. The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up
    ace.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

18. You tread upon my patience.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

19. I will be the pattern of all patience.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

20. 'Tis all men's office to speak patience
    To those that wring under the load of sorrow;
    But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
    To be so moral when he shall endure
    The like himself.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

21. How poor are they that have not patience!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

22. Patience is the art of hoping.—VAUVENARGUES
    

23. Whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself
    

24. I can be pushed just so far.—HARRY LEON WILSON, Ruggles Of Red Gap