Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

First feelings are always the most natural.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

It is legal because I wish it.

The Pyrenees are no more.

I am the state.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Always follow good counsels.

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

I am dying, but the state remains.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

It is impossible to please all the world.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.