Temper Quotes

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.