Patient Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Patient


Patient as rocks. —Anonymous	1
A poor man without patience is like a lamp without oil. —Arabian Proverb	2
Patient, like a marble man. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	3
Patient as a stone. —Charles G. Duffy	4
Patient as a god. —Alexandre Dumas, père	5
Patient as death. —Maurice Hewlett	6
As patient under injury as any Christian saint of old. —Josiah Gilbert Holland	7
Patient as destiny. —Robert G. Ingersoll	8
Patient as an ant. —John Keats	9
Patient as a hen-bird. —John Keats	10
Gazing patient at the sky; Like some marble carven nun, With folded hands when work is done, Who mute upon her tomb doth pray, Till resurrection day. —Charles Kingsley	11
Patient as sheep. —Thomas Babington Macaulay	12
Patient as earth. —Ramayana	13
Patient as a gentle stream. —William Shakespeare	14
Patient as the female dove. —William Shakespeare	15
As pacient and as styll. And as ful of good wil As fayre Isiphill. —John Skelton	16
Patient as the hours. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	17
Patient as the lamb is she. —George Wither	18