Distemper's Quotes

#1. A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Julian Fellowes

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. In other words, the uninsured private bankers had to be bailed out illegally and utterly unethically. But the taxpayers who were forced to carry that can should not even be given better terms for repaying the odious, private debt they were forced to acquire in order to bail the bankers out.

Yanis Varoufakis

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

Ambrose Bierce

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn.

Helen Keller

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

William Wilberforce

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

Woodrow Wilson

#15. 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

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#17. One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

Thomas Paine

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

Norman Collins

#19. Straight edge means I'm better than you.

CM Punk

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

Elia Kazan

#23. Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me. -Maddy

Scott Speer

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

William Shakespeare