Quotes About Temper

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Her bark's worse than her bite. Although her bite is pretty bad to begin with.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

It was much more organized than he would have expected, for a lad with a temper who'd been on the fringes of criminal activity since he was a boy. It came to Joe that perhaps Keane had needed order, to be in control, and the anger came out of chaos and situations he couldn't handle. Three young kids and a flaky wife might do that to you. For the first time, he felt some sympathy for the dead man.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.

I have a hell-fire temper.

Much of the legend surrounding my mother is true. She was a beautiful, talented, warmhearted woman who had the greatest sense of humor. At the same time, she was a sharp, fiery lady who was full of spunk and had a flashy temper.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.