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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Anger is a brief madness.
HORACE, Epistles (Book I)
- Anger as soon as fed is dead,
- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.
THICH NHAT HANH, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
- I was angry with my friend:
- I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
- I was angry with my foe:
- I told it not, my wrath did grow.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Songs of Experience
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER, The Dance of Anger
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
MARK TWAIN, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
We boil at different degrees.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
ALEX HALEY, as quoted in Farrell Artis' Guys, Let's Keep It Real!
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
MARIO PUZO, The Godfather
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling —- I don't think it's any of that —- it's helpless ... it's absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that —- I have no use for it whatsoever.
TONI MORRISON, interview with Don Swaim, 1987
Anger supplies arms.
Whate'ers begun in anger ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Brisingr
- Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season,
- When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason,
- Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust,
- And for an idle, transitory gust
- Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay
- With long repentence at a later day.
THEOGNIS OF MEGARA, Fragment XXXIX
Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
BIBLE, Ephesians 4:26
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