All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and blood and tears.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Bear patiently with a rival.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

A true friend freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.