Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Patient
Patient as rocks.
—Anonymous
A poor man without patience is like a lamp without oil.
—Arabian Proverb
Patient, like a marble man.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Patient as a stone.
—Charles G. Duffy
Patient as a god.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Patient as death.
—Maurice Hewlett
As patient under injury as any Christian saint of old.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland
Patient as destiny.
—Robert G. Ingersoll
Patient as an ant.
—John Keats
Patient as a hen-bird.
—John Keats
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
Patient as sheep.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
Patient as earth.
—Ramayana
Patient as a gentle stream.
—William Shakespeare
Patient as the female dove.
—William Shakespeare
As pacient and as styll.
And as ful of good wil
As fayre Isiphill.
—John Skelton
Patient as the hours.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Patient as the lamb is she.
—George Wither