The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.

People often brag about being “hot-tempered” or “fiery” when a more accurate description would be: “I stopped developing emotionally when I was a small child and therefore never learned to control my tantrums.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

This place is too cold for hell

We got hot there. And then we went cold again.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!