Quotes About Choler

Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

There were four 'humours', choler, sanguine, black bile and yellow bile, which in the ideal man were perfectly balanced. It was the task of the expert physician to adjust any imbalance. This may explain the fondness of medieval doctors, and their successors for generations to come, for blood-letting: ridding the body of an excess of blood could do nothing but good. 'Purging' by laxatives could be useful too, and drugs to induce vomiting.

Murray took William's choler for confusion, though, and chose to elucidate.