Patient Quotes

Beware of the fury of the patient man. (John Dryden)
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. View quote
Edith Sitwell
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. View quote
Voltaire
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. View quote
Lana Turner
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. View quote
Frances Farmer
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. View quote
Charles William Eliot
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. (Bertrand Russell)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. View quote
Helen Keller
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. View quote
Thomas Edison
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. View quote
Horace Mann
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. View quote
Thomas Fuller
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. View quote
Swami Sivananda
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. (Jack Kevorkian)
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. View quote
Francis Quarles
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. View quote
Hosea Ballou
The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people Is there any better or equal hope in the world. View quote
Abraham Lincoln