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  • If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.

    Hurt   Anger   Ego  
  • I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

    Hands   Appreciate   Cop  
    "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 154, 1971.
  • I don't have a problem with my temper.

    Problem   Temper  
  • I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.

    Rapper   Class   Names  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

    Sweet   Speech   Natural  
  • Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

    Golf   Average   Games  
    Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.
  • You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

    Morning   Coffee   Drink  
    Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.114, Penguin
  • You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

    Philosophy   Men   Blue  
    Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

    Funny   Humorous   Men  
    'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 5 (Mark Tapley)
  • If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

    Mind   Faces   Female  
    Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16
  • It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

    Anger   Gains   Debate  
    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4366, Delphi Classics
  • My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

    Mother   Father   Coffee  
    Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books
  • Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

    Humorous   Animal   Men  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS
  • In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

    Firsts   Vain   Temper  
    Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.872
  • Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

    Grief   Joy   Morrow  
    Horace (1936). “Complete Works”
  • If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

    Horace BUSHNELL (1849). “Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc”, p.14
  • There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

    Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.31, Penguin
  • Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

    Justice   Mercy   Temper  
  • A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

    Attention   Crafts   Pay  
    Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

    Two   Ordinary   Anarchy  
    Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”
  • Face it, you stupid little cookie maker,” Jenks said, almost sounding fond, “in the last couple of days you’ve seen what it’s like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy’s the big sister. I’m the uncle from out of state, and you’re the rich nephew no one likes but we put up with you anyway because we feel sorry for you. Just let me help, huh? It won’t kill you.

    Uncles   Sorry   Couple  
  • Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

    Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

    Art   War   Men  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic
  • Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

    Men   Flare Up   Want  
  • 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.

    Men   Mind   Neutrality  
  • The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

    Sun   Temper   Grim  
  • You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

    Beautiful   Death   Pain  
  • Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

    Emotion   Temper  
    "Naomi Campbell: 'Everyone has a temper" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.
  • You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

    Country   War   Temper  
    "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.
  • Abstinence is easier than temperance.

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