Source: Alice in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”
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.”
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.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
Source: Night World, No. 1
“Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Temper brings you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.”
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)
