author and exact quote

[socraplat1]

Good things come to those who wait
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How can I find the author and exact quote that goes something like: Good things come to those who stand and wait"

[henry]

I don't think you'll be able to attribute this to any one person. It's a well-known phrase which is a jokey extension of the proverb All good things come to him who waits.

It may also be related to They also serve who only stand and wait, which is the last line of the poem “On His Blindness,” by John Milton. The poet reflects that he has a place in God’s world despite his disability.

Henry

[Phaedrus]

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait (Tout vient a celui qui sait attendre)~Rabelais, Pantagruel, bk 4, ch. 48 (1548).

Evrything comes if a man will only wait~Disraeli, Tancred, bk 4, ch. 8 (1847)

All things come round to him who will but wait~H.W. Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn:The Student's Tale, last line of the poem (1863).

[greekboy3000]

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
~~François Rabelais (1494–1553), French author, evangelist. Panurge, in Fourth Book, ch. 48, p. 650.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work “comes” to him.
~~W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet. “Writing,” pt. 1, The Dyer’s Hand (1962).

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.

Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.
~~Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) Of Good in Things evil.

You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait.
~~Philip Larkin (1922–1985), British poet. Myxomatosis