It is only our bad temper that we
put down to being tired or worried
or hungry; we put our good
temper down to ourselves.
?C. S. Lewis
Good temper is one of the greatest
preservers of the features.
?William Hazlitt
Men lose their tempers in
defending their taste.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was not that she was out of temper,
but that the world was not equal to the
demands of her fine organism.
?George Eliot
The worst-tempered people I've
ever met were the people
who knew they were wrong.
?Wilson Mizener
Man is a rational animal who always
loses his temper when called upon to act
according with the dictates of reason.
?Oscar Wilde
Men are like steel. When they lose
their temper, they lose their worth.
?Chuck Norris
When the habitually even-tempered
suddenly fly into a passion, that
explosion is apt to be more
impressive than the outburst of
the most violent amongst us.
?Margery Allingham
They are eloquent who can speak low
things acutely, and of great things with dignity,
and of moderate things with temper.
?Marcus Tullius Cicero
