Temper Quotes - Page 11

• The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

  Hannah More

  Ubiquity, Support, Nerves

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.9

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• A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

  William Cobbett

  Religious, Couple, Food

  William Cobbett (2009). “Cottage Economy”, p.84, Applewood Books

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Compassion, Sick

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

  Laurence Sterne

  Selfishness, Connections, Matter

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.26, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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• Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

  David Hume

  Taste, Study, Painting

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.579, Delphi Classics

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• The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

  Edith Hamilton

  Views, Opposites, Perspective

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

  Edith Hamilton

  Religion, Conservative, Theology

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

  Harriet Martineau

  Moving, Men, Atmosphere

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

  John Wesley

  Pride, World, Riches

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.441

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• Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Political, Politics, Publicity

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• A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

  David Gemmell

  Daughter, Men, Wife

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Bait, Too Late

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

  James Moore

  Nice, Guy, Pretending

  "Jack Thompson withdraws from GTA case" by Wade Steel, www.ign.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Hypocrisy, Together

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.149

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• Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sweet, Speech, Natural

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• Temper your future actions.

  Tom DeLay

  Action, Your Future, Temperance

  "Ethics Panel Admonishes DeLay Again". www.foxnews.com. October 07, 2004.

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• I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Scottish, Shows, Thrift

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Garden, Growth, Lines

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• It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

  Aeschines

  Government, Law, Democracy

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• There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Mind, Neutrality

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• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

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• When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Kings, Men

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• For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

  James Gandolfini

  Guy, Losing, Temperance

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• I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Saws, Useless

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