Temper Quotes - Page 5

• I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

  S. J. Perelman

  Brother, Scotch, Half

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• You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Self, Long

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• A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Bears, Sickness

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Call Me, Abusive

  "Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Shade, Honey

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic

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• I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Thinking, Political

  Letter to the Editor, N.Y. Daily Tribune, 10 Mar. 1873

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• We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

  Mark V. Hurd

  Ideas, Events, Needs

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• A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Stubborn, Littles

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Doctor, &c. ...”, p.14

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• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  Design, May, Sin

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Important, Trying, Sometimes

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• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

  Catharine Beecher

  Mind, Faces, Female

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16

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• Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

  Euripides

  Age, Difficult, Deals

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  John Milton

  Hate, Winning, Hands

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• I don't have a problem with my temper.

  Tommy Lee

  Problem

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• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

  William Warburton

  Imagination, Mind, Enthusiasm

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• Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

  Albert Gubay

  Stupid, People, Easier

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• When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

  Andrew Lau

  Crazy, Directors

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

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• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
  To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Lovely, Everlasting Love

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Rain, Eye, Snow

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• I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

  Greg Bryk

  Violence, Language, Grew Up

  Source: collider.com

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• But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

  George Eliot

  Men, Wind, Certain

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.303

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