Distemper Quotes

#1. If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

#3. It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.

Frances Osborne

#4. Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Bill Moyers

#5. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours. Therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It

William Shakespeare

#6. Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

#7. A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

John Pym

#8. It was her clothes that did it...they clashed violently with the buff distemper of the walls.

Norman Collins

#9. [To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Miguel De Cervantes

#10. Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

William Wilberforce

#13. Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.

Francis Quarles

#14. By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief ...

John Owen

#15. All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#17. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before

William Shakespeare

#18. Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Gerald Early

#20. A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

Henry Fielding

#21. I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.

Jonathan Lethem

#22. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

Rick Riordan

#24. The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

Don Shula

#25. Animals are not here for our entertainment.

Sam Simon