Quotes about Temper

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. Votes: 7

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. Votes: 7

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Votes: 6

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Votes: 6

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Votes: 6

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Votes: 6

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Votes: 6

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Votes: 6

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. Votes: 6

Good temper is an estate for life. Votes: 4

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. Votes: 4

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. Votes: 4

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. Votes: 4

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Votes: 4

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit Votes: 4

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. Votes: 4

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. Votes: 4

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. Votes: 4

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 4

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. Votes: 4

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. Votes: 4

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT. Votes: 4

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion. Votes: 4

Temper justice with mercy. Votes: 3

Temper your future actions. Votes: 3

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. Votes: 3

Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it. Votes: 3

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Votes: 3

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. Votes: 3

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. Votes: 3

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. Votes: 3

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Votes: 3

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. Votes: 3

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 3

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. Votes: 3

The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career and connect to my body and my spirit. Votes: 3

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth. Votes: 3

Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't. Votes: 3

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him. Votes: 2

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. Votes: 2

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Votes: 2

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Votes: 2

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. Votes: 2

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Votes: 2

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Votes: 2

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Votes: 2

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. Votes: 2

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper. Votes: 2

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. Votes: 2

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. Votes: 2

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art. Votes: 2

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there. Votes: 2

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. Votes: 2

Opportunity seldom rises with blood pressure. Votes: 1

If you lose your temper, you lose! Votes: 1

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black. Votes: 1

Lose your temper and you lose the fight. Votes: 1

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place. Votes: 1

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. Votes: 1

I lost my temper today. Fuck it. Whoever finds it can keep it. Votes: 1

Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery. Votes: 1

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. Votes: 1

I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper. Votes: 1

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. Votes: 1

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. Votes: 1

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. Votes: 1

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it. Votes: 1

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. Votes: 1

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper. Votes: 1

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. Votes: 1

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me. Votes: 1

Tempers are temporary, but hateful and hurtful words can be remembered forever. Leave a legacy of love and say only kind things. Votes: 1

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. Votes: 1

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. Votes: 1

Patience is so valuable I'm willing to wait forever to achieve it. And while I wait, I may as well get busy being short-tempered. Votes: 1

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual Votes: 1

Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. Votes: 1

On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper. Votes: 1

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. Votes: 1

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life? Votes: 1

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France. Votes: 1

I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon Votes: 1

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. Votes: 1

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior. Votes: 1

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding! Votes: 1

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong. Votes: 1

I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid. Votes: 1

We ought never to lose our tempers with people who, when we find them at fault, begin to snigger. They do so not because they are laughing at us, but because they are afraid of our displeasure. Votes: 1

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy. Votes: 1

And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes-- Votes: 1

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self. Votes: 1

He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work. Votes: 1

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself). Votes: 1

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes. Votes: 1

So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the straps of my backpack and brought in front of him. "Removing temptation."I gave him a look that communicated he should wither and die. Votes: 1

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. Votes: 1

She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood". Votes: 1

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good. Votes: 1

I have a hell-fire temper. Votes: 0

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool. Votes: 0

Don't lose your temper; use it. Votes: 0

I rarely lose my temper anymore. Votes: 0

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. Votes: 0

Never lose your temper, except intentionally. Votes: 0

I lost my temper on stage. Votes: 0

Why, what a temper you are in! Votes: 0

A man's fate is his own temper. Votes: 0

I still have a temper, I suppose. Votes: 0

A person's fate is their own temper. Votes: 0

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Votes: 0

The wise man never loses his temper. Votes: 0

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. Votes: 0

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. Votes: 0

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism. Votes: 0

But certain winds will make men's temper bad. Votes: 0

I don't have a problem with my temper. Votes: 0

An awful lot has been written about my temper. Votes: 0

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. Votes: 0

Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper. Votes: 0

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you? Votes: 0

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. Votes: 0

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Votes: 0

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper. Votes: 0

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Votes: 0

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. Votes: 0

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. Votes: 0

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper. Votes: 0

To lose your temper is only useful once a year. Votes: 0

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them. Votes: 0

To lose your temper is only useful once a year. Votes: 0

I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper. Votes: 0

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. Votes: 0

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper! Votes: 0

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined. Votes: 0

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. Votes: 0

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons. Votes: 0

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. Votes: 0

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you. Votes: 0

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life. Votes: 0

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper. Votes: 0

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. Votes: 0

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. Votes: 0

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice. Votes: 0

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. Votes: 0

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. Votes: 0

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. Votes: 0

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper. Votes: 0

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. Votes: 0

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him. Votes: 0

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. Votes: 0

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. Votes: 0

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper. Votes: 0

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. Votes: 0

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper. Votes: 0

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. Votes: 0

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums. Votes: 0

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. Votes: 0

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. Votes: 0

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back. Votes: 0

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. Votes: 0

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment? Votes: 0

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. Votes: 0

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. Votes: 0

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus) Votes: 0

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. Votes: 0

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. Votes: 0

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. Votes: 0

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation Votes: 0

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is Votes: 0

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. Votes: 0

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite. Votes: 0

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. Votes: 0

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Votes: 0

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence. Votes: 0

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. Votes: 0

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. Votes: 0

My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares. Votes: 0

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. Votes: 0

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. Votes: 0

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. Votes: 0

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Votes: 0

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others Votes: 0

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. Votes: 0

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. Votes: 0

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way. Votes: 0

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. Votes: 0

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . Votes: 0

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper. Votes: 0

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. Votes: 0

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. Votes: 0

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. Votes: 0

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. Votes: 0

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it. Votes: 0

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. Votes: 0

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper. Votes: 0

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. Votes: 0

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. Votes: 0

My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. Votes: 0

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; Votes: 0

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. Votes: 0

A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. Votes: 0

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper. Votes: 0

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Votes: 0

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . . Votes: 0

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. Votes: 0

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. Votes: 0

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself"”on the mat as well as in life. Votes: 0

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper. Votes: 0

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. Votes: 0

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. Votes: 0

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people Votes: 0

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Votes: 0

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. Votes: 0

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. Votes: 0

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. Votes: 0

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper. Votes: 0

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Votes: 0

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. Votes: 0

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. Votes: 0

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. Votes: 0

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. Votes: 0

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. Votes: 0

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness Votes: 0

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. Votes: 0

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. Votes: 0

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. Votes: 0

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. Votes: 0

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed. Votes: 0

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. Votes: 0

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. Votes: 0

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. Votes: 0

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. Votes: 0

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. Votes: 0

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery. Votes: 0

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. Votes: 0

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second. Votes: 0

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." Votes: 0

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. Votes: 0

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! Votes: 0

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. Votes: 0

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper. Votes: 0

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. Votes: 0

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. Votes: 0

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper. Votes: 0

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. Votes: 0

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. Votes: 0

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. Votes: 0

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. Votes: 0

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. Votes: 0

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. Votes: 0

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee. Votes: 0

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. Votes: 0

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. Votes: 0

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. Votes: 0

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion. Votes: 0

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself. Votes: 0

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons. Votes: 0

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. Votes: 0

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency. Votes: 0

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. Votes: 0

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. Votes: 0

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. Votes: 0

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. Votes: 0

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. Votes: 0

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. Votes: 0

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it. Votes: 0

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. Votes: 0

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things. Votes: 0

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs... Votes: 0

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. Votes: 0

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper. Votes: 0

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . Votes: 0

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule! Votes: 0

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids. Votes: 0

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. Votes: 0

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down. Votes: 0

Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love. Votes: 0

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Votes: 0

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts. Votes: 0

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. Votes: 0

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself. Votes: 0

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. Votes: 0

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help. Votes: 0

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. Votes: 0

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations. Votes: 0

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. Votes: 0

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. Votes: 0

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. Votes: 0

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. Votes: 0

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. Votes: 0

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Votes: 0

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No. Votes: 0

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Votes: 0

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned. Votes: 0

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. Votes: 0

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! Votes: 0

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper. Votes: 0

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. Votes: 0

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says. Votes: 0

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... Votes: 0

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax... Votes: 0

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. Votes: 0

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. Votes: 0

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors. Votes: 0

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth. Votes: 0

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper. Votes: 0

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit. Votes: 0

She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it. Votes: 0

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. Votes: 0

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. Votes: 0

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Votes: 0

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless. Votes: 0

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it. Votes: 0

I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century. Votes: 0

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. Votes: 0

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. Votes: 0

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am. Votes: 0

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country Votes: 0

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness. Votes: 0

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time. Votes: 0

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. Votes: 0

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . . Votes: 0

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed. Votes: 0

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony. Votes: 0

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper. Votes: 0

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. Votes: 0

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that. Votes: 0

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. Votes: 0

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Votes: 0

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar. Votes: 0

Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly. Votes: 0

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers. Votes: 0

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. Votes: 0

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak. Votes: 0

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country. Votes: 0

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. Votes: 0

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever. Votes: 0

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential. Votes: 0

I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient. Votes: 0

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. Votes: 0

You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces... Votes: 0

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar. Votes: 0

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper. Votes: 0

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. Votes: 0

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds. Votes: 0

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous. Votes: 0

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer. Votes: 0

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy. Votes: 0

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces! Votes: 0

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. Votes: 0

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Votes: 0

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul. Votes: 0

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Votes: 0

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. Votes: 0

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. Votes: 0

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong. Votes: 0

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences. Votes: 0

Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three""“"your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart. Votes: 0

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it. Votes: 0

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen. Votes: 0

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. Votes: 0

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it. Votes: 0

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country. Votes: 0

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me. Votes: 0

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." Votes: 0

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway? Votes: 0

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. Votes: 0

You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie Votes: 0

I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper. Votes: 0

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. Votes: 0

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way. Votes: 0

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. Votes: 0

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language. Votes: 0

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk. Votes: 0

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice. Votes: 0

I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued. Votes: 0

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day. Votes: 0

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.' Votes: 0

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper. Votes: 0

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper "“ or in a hurry. Votes: 0

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check. Votes: 0

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it. Votes: 0

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age. Votes: 0

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. Votes: 0

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. Votes: 0

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live. Votes: 0

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself. Votes: 0

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Votes: 0

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. Votes: 0

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan. Votes: 0

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders. Votes: 0

Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded. Votes: 0

Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back. Votes: 0

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health. Votes: 0

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. Votes: 0

You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and make him thing he's going to die. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view. Votes: 0

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least. Votes: 0

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end. Votes: 0

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. Votes: 0

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say. Votes: 0

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others. Votes: 0

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves. Votes: 0

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it. Votes: 0

Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it! Votes: 0

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. Votes: 0

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere. Votes: 0

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination. Votes: 0

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive. Votes: 0

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls. Votes: 0

Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions. Votes: 0

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. Votes: 0

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times. Votes: 0

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. Votes: 0

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. Votes: 0

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite. Votes: 0

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there. Votes: 0

My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me, I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely Votes: 0

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum. Votes: 0

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years. Votes: 0

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane. Votes: 0

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher. Votes: 0

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate. Votes: 0

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. Votes: 0

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted. Votes: 0

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. Votes: 0

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear. Votes: 0

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. Votes: 0

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Votes: 0

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry. Votes: 0

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade. Votes: 0

I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me. Votes: 0

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill. Votes: 0

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus. Votes: 0

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Votes: 0