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(Today is also the birthday of William S. Burroughs)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his
own weight in other people's patience.
-John Updike
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by
patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
-Adlai
E. Stevenson II
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the
best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
-Jean
Baptiste Moliere
Adapt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
-Honoré de
Balzac
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well
knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
-Cleveland
Amory
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may
seem superb- such power and such restraint, combined, are noble- but a
quality carried to excess defeats itself.
-Clarence Day
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
-John
Ruskin
Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great
hearts.
-James Russell Lowell
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience,
if you can.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
-Laurence
J. Peter
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
-George-Louis
Leclerc de Buffon
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous patience.
-Hyman Rickover
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
-Abigail
Adams
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the
impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is
against the national interest.
-Jimmy Breslin
In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that
patience, too, has its victories.
-Konrad Adenauer
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
-W.B.
Prescott
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call
them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience
to make art.
-Pauline Kael
Laziness is often mistaken for patience. (French Proverb)
-Unattributed
Lord, grant me the patience to suffer fools, or, alternatively, a
chainsaw.
-Unattributed
Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience,
shuffle the cards...
-Margaret Fuller
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast;
hold out. Patience is genius.
-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-Edmund Burke
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
-C. Lee Hopkin
Patience is something to admire in the driver behind you but scorn in
the one ahead.
-Mac McCleary
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-Augustine of Hippo (St.
Augustine)
Patience isn't a virtue, it's a tactic.
-Unattributed
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of
impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we
cannot return.
-W.H. Auden
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's
performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too
distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the
all.
-Margaret Fuller
The greatest power is often simple patience.
-E. Joseph Cossman
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women
submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
-William
H. Borah
The office of President requires the constitution of an athlete, the
patience of a mother, and the endurance of an early Christian.
-Woodrow
Wilson
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real
application in life. (From the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes)
-Bill
Watterson
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal
patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the
shield of free speech.
-Michael Shermer
The remote control changed our lives... The remote control took over the
timing of the world. That's why you have road rage. You have people who
have no patience, because you got immediate gratification. You got
click, click, click, click. If it doesn't explode within three seconds,
click click, click.
-Sid Caesar
The strongest of all warriors are these two- Time and Patience.
-Leo
Tolstoy
The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience,
and Hubris.
-Larry Wall
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the
people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or
number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the
young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open
air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have
been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults
your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the
richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its
lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion
and joint of your body...
-Walt Whitman
When, in the late 1940s, we faced a global Cold War against another
system of ideological fanatics certain that their authoritarian values
would eventually rule the world, we prevailed in time. We prevailed
because we exercised patience as well as vigilance, self-restraint as
well as self-defense, and reached out to moderates and modernists, to
democrats and dissidents, within that closed system.
-Theodore
(Ted) Sorensen
Who teaches you tolerance? Maybe sometimes your children teach you
patience, but always your enemy will teach you tolerance. So your enemy
is really your teacher.
-Tenzin Gyatso (The Dalai Lama)
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for
instance.
-Franklin P. Jones
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(Today is also the birthday of William S. Burroughs)
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