Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. - Cassandra Clare I don't see any fireworks", she said, mock-scowling at Isabelle. "Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,", said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life." "Confused is a nice word for it"... (pp. 539/540). - Cassandra Clare Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow. - John Green

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. - Francis Bacon for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. - Elihu Root

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence. - Orson Scott Card Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! - Agatha Christie I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment. - Agatha Christie Although Branwen had no patience for dry lists of names and dates, she had always loved the thrilling tales of the old wars that were told and retold around the hearth in the Great Hall of Garth Milain. - Allan Frewin Jones I have many questions, but no patience to think them through. - Maira Kalman No patience. No kisses. No hugs. Just a tweezers and some rubbing alcohol, and a stinging sensation that never goes away. - Dexter S King...

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi) - Sherrilyn Kenyon My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. - David Hobson I've said my patience is not infinite. - Darrell Issa

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. - Richard Cecil Because paper has more patience than people. - Anne Frank Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. - Laurence J Peter How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. - Elbert Hubbard I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. - T Boone Pickens A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows? - Aaron Spelling I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. - Randy Travis I've seen fish hooked who keep more patience in their worst gill than some of y...

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born. - Charles M Schulz I must be losing patience with my fellow humans," Miss Beryl went on. "Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon. - Richard Russo

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! - Agatha Christie I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me. - Kenny Loggins

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can. - J R R Tolkien Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination. - Muammar Algaddafi Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer. - Clive Barker It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. - Julie Bowen He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. - Oswald Chambers Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to...