Patience Worth Lived

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

“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,—as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)