Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
James Lee Burke

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Charles Perrault

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace

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

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.
Arthur Helps

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
William Law

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.
Bainbridge Colby

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
Colin R. Davis

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

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Louis D. Brandeis

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
Mark V. Hurd

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh