Patience is a virtue best served cold [closed]

My college professor asked our class for any creative insight about the phrase, “Patience is a virtue best served cold.” My - and my other classmates’s - initial reaction was that our teacher may have meant, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” However, when we said this, our teacher simply stated it again. Does anyone have creative thoughts on the saying?

Solution 1:

The way I see it, patience in most cases is better when served with coldness. If you pretend to be patient, it's always better to act colder, more indifferent - even though you might be feeling angry, disappointed, etc. If you act cold, you're showing something is tiring you in a somewhat more polite way, but, most importantly, you're not exactly pushing non-existent emotions upon yourself. On the other hand, showing warm patience (and by that I mean really feeling it through and reassuring yourself you can and must bear with someone, even if they're harmful/rude/toxic) is going to end badly for both you and the other person.

Everything is good to a certain extent. As the saying goes: everything is a good thing, except for when it isn't.