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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