If thumbing through a high school yearbook from a few decades ago, you might come upon this motto chosen by the senior class, “All things come to him who waits.” Credit for the origin of this proverb generally goes to a poem by an English poet, Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, who often wrote under the pen name of Violet Fane. In recent years it has modified to read, “All good things come to him who waits.”