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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. -- George Santayana
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. -- Lord Chesterfield
Laziness breeds humors of the blood. -- Galen
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. -- Alexander Pope
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. -- William Empson
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. -- James Elkins
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. -- John Milton
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. -- Samuel Richardson
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger. -- Baltasar Gracian
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight. -- William Shakespeare
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. -- Athenaeus
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison

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