patient quotes

  • As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

  • Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 7:8.

  • If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apttoteach; Not giventowine, nostriker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
      Timothy 3:1^3.

  • Beware the fury of a patient man.

    -John Dryden
    Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.1005.

  • Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917), opening lines.

  • You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
    Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.3.

  • I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.

    -James pseudonym of James Alfred Wight Herriot
      Vet in Harness.

  • It's like saying that the patient died but the good news is that he's eating less.

    - Andrew,Jr Jacobs
      Of the Reagan administration's claim to have reduced inflation. In the Washington Post, 6  Jun.

  • Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

    - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      Evangeline, pt.2, section1.

  • The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

    -Wilfred Owen
      'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.

  • My soul; sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes, every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

    - Francis Quarles
      Epigram, Respice Finem.

  • The most patient people grow wearyat last with being continually wetted with rain; except, of course, in the Scottish Highlands, where there are not enough fine intervals to point the difference. Stevenson

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
      An InlandVoyage,'Down the Oise: to Compi e' gne'.

  • The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.

    -Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
    Attributed.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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