patience Quotes

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.