the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion. . . different temperaments. . . differences in the capacity to comprehend.
An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
I have one of the great temperaments.
Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
