“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.”
Simonides of Ceos (-556–-468 BC) Ancient Greek musician and poet
From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos
“what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes”
Source: Othello
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“5499. What is the Use of Patience, if we cannot find it when we want it?”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : What signifies your Patience, if you can't find it when you want it.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
On aging, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
2008
“Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.
