Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a po

Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Patience
category

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Patience

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public. – Yingluck Shinawatra

Category:
Patience

Genius is eternal patience. – Michelangelo

Category:
Patience

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait…The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count. – Robert Anthony

Category:
Patience

Random Quotes

I am quite strict as a dad but I dont want to be censorious. – Nick Clegg

Category:
dad

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Love

That fear may reach all, punish but few. – Proverb

Category:
Fear

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,

Category:
Love