Wife Patience

Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or patience:

“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I’m dead right or I’m crazy.
Senator MacPherson: You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?”
—Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)