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Temper Quotes by Mark Twain
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
More Temper Quotes
- We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler
- Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a… — Horace
- So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and… — Charles Darwin
- As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and… — Rachel Naomi Remen
- The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is… — William H. Gass
- Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. — Isaac Watts
- Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper