Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”
Damon Knight book A for Anything
Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 7 (p. 88)
“As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.”
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book I, Ch. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=COoNAAAAQAAJ&q=%22as+we+jogg+on+either+laugh+with+me+or+at+me+or+in+short+do+any+thing+only+keep+your+temper%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Temper brings you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
A comment to a personal friend, about Joseph McCarthy's attacks upon his loyalty (which went so far as to call him a "traitor"), as quoted by Alistair Cooke, in Letter from America : General Marshall (16 October 1959), published in Memories of the Great and the Good (1999)