Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Votes: 6
Baltasar GracianModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Votes: 6
Thomas PaineHave a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Votes: 6
Charles DickensThe happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Votes: 4
Francois de La RochefoucauldOf cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. Votes: 4
Ralph Waldo EmersonTemper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. Votes: 3
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyTemper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. Votes: 3
Daniel HandlerLighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. Votes: 3
HoraceI am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. Votes: 2
John KeatsHe [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. Votes: 1
Robertson DaviesI've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper. Votes: 1
Toba BetaThe memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. Votes: 1
George EliotWomen's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. Votes: 1
Margaret CavendishI have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it. Votes: 1
Susanna ClarkeThe sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. Votes: 1
Ron PearceInterest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxGood temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. Votes: 0
Betty BoothroydControlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesMost football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. Votes: 0
Doug PlankThe old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. Votes: 0
John MortimerFretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. Votes: 0
Hugh BlairMy childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums. Votes: 0
Sylvia FraserDangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. Votes: 0
Jeremy CollierCultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaYou're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back. Votes: 0
Kristin CashoreThe growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheOh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOf all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation Votes: 0
Joseph ConradA wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. Votes: 0
George GrenvilleA perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence. Votes: 0
Robert FrostI shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonI've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. Votes: 0
Susannah YorkMy temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares. Votes: 0
Larissa IoneIve struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. Votes: 0
Susannah YorkBeer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonI'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. Votes: 0
S. J. PerelmanMutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonRighteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardThou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. Votes: 0
HomerWars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellOnce the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverEating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. Votes: 0
Elsie de WolfeA man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. Votes: 0
David O. McKayMen who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper. Votes: 0
Victor CherbuliezI keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltNever durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; Votes: 0
William ShakespeareHypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeA man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldI'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper. Votes: 0
James MooreO woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Votes: 0
Thomas OtwayI avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper. Votes: 0
Julie DelpyWe need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. Votes: 0
Mark V. HurdNever lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. Votes: 0
Christabel PankhurstThe brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareOf all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. Votes: 0
David Lloyd GeorgeA persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. Votes: 0
Jane AustenIt's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. Votes: 0
Warren ChristopherHave you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper. Votes: 0
Robert OrbenHealth is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWhere I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. Votes: 0
Josh McDowellA stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness Votes: 0
Robert SoutheyEnthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. Votes: 0
William WarburtonI can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed. Votes: 0
Rachel StevensI always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. Votes: 0
Willa GibbsThe Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. Votes: 0
Neville CardusOne should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsIt is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamO! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareA little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorEven to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper. Votes: 0
Zulfikar Ali BhuttoWe often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. Votes: 0
Cass SunsteinKnowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. Votes: 0
RumiI continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsMy father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. Votes: 0
Marilyn MansonA misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonWhat happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself. Votes: 0
Wes AndersonIt takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWhen I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it. Votes: 0
Mario BalotelliI 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
Andrew FlintoffI do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No. Votes: 0
Debbie ReynoldsIt 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: 3 C. S. Lewis
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. Votes: 3 Paul Prudhomme
I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper. Votes: 1 Casey Wilson