Temper Quotes by Samuel Butler

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• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
• Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. — James M. Barrie
• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison
• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. — Edmund Burke
• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown… — Samuel Butler
• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man… — Samuel Butler
• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler
• There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no… — Benjamin Carson
• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne
• Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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