Quotes of Temper - somelinesforyou

“ Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.". ”

- Robert Byrne

“ A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ”

- Washington Irving

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Nonvoting is a fruitless temper tantrum. ”

- Bruce Wright

“ There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ 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. ”

- William Cowper

“ 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. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”

- David Hume

“ When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. ”

- Margery Allingham

“ Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ”

- Chuck Norris

“ Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”

- Robert Frost

“ So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a mature record means. ”

- Ian Williams

“ I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ”

- James Gibbons

“ Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ 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. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Good temper is an estate for life. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. ”

- George Eliot

“ Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

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

- Jack Nicklaus

“ Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ”

- Charles Spurgeon

“ They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it. ”

- Unknown
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