(204 quotes found)
“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.”
Joseph Joubert
“I've never really had problems controlling my temper. I am an intense guy on the football field, and sometimes I get carried away. I got carried away two days ago. I'm just going to make the situation right from this point forward. Can I move forward? I have no choice.”
Bill Romanowski
“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife”
Bible
“This sort of thing has happened in the past. … Do you have trouble controlling your temper?”
David Letterman
“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself”
Samuel Butler
“Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak”
Homer
“Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance”
Mark Twain
“`How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' / Who has written such volumes of stuff ! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer, / But a few think him pleasant enough.”
Edward Lear