Temper Quotes
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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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.
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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I don't have a problem with my temper.
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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.
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
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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.
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I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
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What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
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Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.
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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
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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!
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
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Why, what a temper you are in!
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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.
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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.
