Quotes About Temperament

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.