I've got a temper that every so often can come up and surprise me ... (Quote by - Barry Otto)

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. (Quote by - Proverbs 14:29)

Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation. (Quote by - Truman Capote)

I don't really mind this although sometimes I get afraid of Willy. I get afraid of his temper. You never know what he's going to do. (Quote by - Taylor Branch)

Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully they may be guarded in this ,world . (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. (Quote by - John Ray)

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. (Quote by - Lord Shaftesbury)

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; tha s the essence of inhumanity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

I have a right to my anger, and I do t want anybody telling me I should t be, that i s not nice to be, and that somethin s wrong with me because I get angry. (Quote by - Maxine Waters)

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. (Quote by - James Gandolfini)

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. (Quote by - Cherie Carter-Scott)

The temper you saw on the set was his personality. (Quote by - Michael Douglas)

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right wa that is not easy. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)

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. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)