Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or patience:
“He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross,
Clearly used to silence and an armchair:
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet
At slammed door and smoker’s cough in the hall.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“Poor little Foal of an oppressed race!
I love the languid patience of thy face.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
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