Quotes About Temper

But, as, when any of the prouder passions are hurt, it is much better philosophy to let a man slip into a good temper than to attack him in a bad one

Those who knew Benjaman Franklin will recollect, that his mind was ever young; his temper ever serene; science, that never grows grey, was always his mistress. He was never without an object; for when we cease to have an object we become like an invalid in an hospital waiting for death.

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

A man ran by cupping hands to his nose. "I'll sue you for every last penny." Serge faced Mahoney again. "Whose office is that?" "The Guy Who Punches People." "You call him that because he has a temper?" "No," said Mahoney. "It's what he does. Here's his business card.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

with a sad smile she would recount the time our grandfather was so displeased with our grandmother's okra stew that in a fit of temper he threw the pot out the window into the deep, fast-running waters of the Bosphorus.

If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.

The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

Being angry isn't always for a reason that makes sense.

Don't you ever feel like lashing out at somebody? I mean, don't you ever lose your temper?' 'Ela, after you've inadvertently killed a couple of people with your bare hands, either you learn to control your temper or you lose your humanity.' 'You've done that?' 'Yes,' he said.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

He was not able to achieve inner calm. Kottke remembers him getting into a furious shouting match with a Hindu woman in a village marketplace who, Jobs alleged, had

Wit, Sir Knight, may do much. He is a quick, apprehensive knave, who sees his neighbours blind side, and knows how to keep the leegage when his passions are blowing high. But valour is a sturdy fellow, that makes all split. He rows against both wind and tide, and makes way notwithstanding; and, therefore, good Sir Knight, while I take advantage of the fair weather in our noble master's temper, I will expect you to bestir yourself when it grows rough.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Besides, life is so interesting to him, that he has no time for the faults of temper which generally have their source in ennui; there is no reason why he should be peevish or sulky or obstinate when he is always kept well amused.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Oh Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee To temper Man: We had been Brutes without you, Angels are Painted fair, to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of Heav'n, Amazing Brightness, Purity and Truth, Eternal Joy, and everlasting Love.

Leos don't need anger management — they just need for people to stop angering them.

an only son named Jack. Jack was a boy of a bold temper; he took pleasure in hearing or reading stories

Keeper!" He inhaled slowly, took Azalea's outstretched hand-shudders went through her throat, he felt so solid -and pressed the brooch into her marked palm. "I was only picking it up," he said, quietly. His thumb rubbed the red nail mark on her hand. A smile crossed his lips. "Temper, temper.

For the first week, I stood in front of that little thing on the sidewalk and wanted to punch anybody that stepped on it.

Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.