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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom." »Laurence Sterne
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"Hope is the nurse of misery." »American Proverb
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition." »George Barrell Cheever
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"As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth." »Buddhist
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"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato, The Republic
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"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato
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"A good friend is my nearest relation." »Thomas Fuller
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." »Albert Einstein
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe." »Albert Schweitzer
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"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow
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"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau
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"A patient man is one who can put up with himself." »Author Unknown
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"If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime." »Elsa Barker
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"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." »Marcel Proust
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"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." »Edith Sitwell
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"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it." »Edith Sitwell
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"We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world." »Helen Keller
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"Beware of the fury of the patient man." »John Dryden
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." »Margaret Thatcher
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"Beware the fury of a patient man." »John Dryden
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"The fates have given mankind a patient soul." »Homer
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." »Helen Keller
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""Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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