"We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own." ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld Topic(s): Patience Tags: patience More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld "Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit." "Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" "They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones." More In Patience "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."― Francis Bacon "I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting."― Robert Falcon Scott "I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it’s not a Grateful Dead project, it’s a Me project."― Jerry Garcia