Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Lord Buddha
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak when you are angry–and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese Proverb
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Bible
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca.
When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry and you will make
the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Shakespeare
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter S. Landor
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
George Eliot
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Alexandre Dumas
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
John Dryden
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
John Dryden
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
People who fly into a rage always make a bad
landing.
Will Rogers
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
St. Francis De Sales
Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.
Kazi Shams
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Lord Halifax
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
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Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
Cato
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
Haliburton
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
Abraham J. Hesche
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
Homer
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
Horace
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Beecher
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
Tamil proverb
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred Montapert
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
George Eliot
Beware the anger of the dove.
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He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
Seneca
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Tyron Edwards
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.
Aristotle
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
Korean Proverb
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Lyman Abbott
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
Neil Kinnock
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.
Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.
Sweetpea Tyler
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
Louis L’Armour
Never strike your wife – even with a flower.
Hindu Proverb
Anger is a bad counselor.
French Proverb
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
Wilson Mizner
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Jacqueline Schiff