“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” IfsMenNeedsBelieveMayMeanLongImportantI BelieveSexMy OwnExistenceGoneObjectsExpressionEqualMarriedCapableClaimsPrivilegeLove LifeMarried LifeExertionForbearanceAnne Elliot Author:Jane Austen
“Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.” ShouldActionPoliticsSecurityConflictPreservesNational SecurityMisunderstoodReluctanceForbearance Author:Ronald Reagan
“Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.” MenMayRememberExerciseFaultsVicesCommitFollyShortcomingsForbearance Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.” MenBecomingGreat MenCourtesyForbearance Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.” PeopleThinkingShouldSaidYoungSecretCriticismCalmMissionsAgentsMessUselessDelicateConstructiveDiplomaticEuphemismForbearanceCologneConstructive CriticismSecret Agent Author:Quentin Crisp