Quote by John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Endurance is patience concentrated. – Thomas Carlyle

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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked. – Abdus Salam

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Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. – Author Unknown

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This is the story of what a Womans patience can endure, and what a Mans resolution can achieve. – Wilkie Collins

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