Patience Worth Lived

Famous quotes containing the words patience, worth and/or lived:

“With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
Grieve, if you will, over what’s unmerited.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn’t brotherly—who lived mostly under his parents’ roof ... who advocated one day’s work and six days “off” as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown ... is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)