Quotes
Quotes about Temper
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair, And at her heels a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
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!
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Music inflames temperament.
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.
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have just enough shadow To temper the glare of the sun; I would pray God to guard them from evil, But my prayer would bound back to myself: Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner, But a sinner must pray for himself.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
A theory must be tempered with reality.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
