Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength. Colton.

Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass. Pr.

Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large. Sydney Smith.

Patience passe science—Patience surpasses knowledge. M.

Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she 15 pause; / They can be meek that have no other cause. Com. of Errors, ii. 1.

Patience wears out stones. Gael. Pr.

Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive. Lowell.

Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy. Sc. Pr.

Patient waiters are no losers. Pr.

Patientia læsa fit furor—Patience abused becomes 20 fury.