"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Patience Tags: meekness, patience, planning, uncommon More From Ambrose Bierce "Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience." "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." "Irreligion – the principal one of the great faiths of the world." More In Patience "A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."― Thomas Hobbes "Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."― Khalil Gibran "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."― Peter Stuyvesant