#temper

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

#deserve #fewer #likewise #love #people

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#controversy #dispute #exact #gains #most

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#felicity #live #method #peace #pleasure

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#goes #heating #need #oil #temperature

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #hard #i #me #reign

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#fool #make #quick #soon #temper

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#performer #really #temperament