I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.
A person's fate is their own temper.
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
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.
Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.