Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Who can be patient in extremes?

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: / Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.