Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Anger
Akhenaton
BC -~1375 Egyptian King Monotheist
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
Anger
Akhenaton
BC -~1375 Egyptian King Monotheist
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Anger
Alcott, Louisa May
1832-1888 American Author
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I’m never rude to my playing partner. I’m very focused on the ball. Then it’s over.
Anger
Alfredsson, Helen
American Golfer
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Anger
Alger, William R.
1822-1905 American Writer
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Anger
Angelis, Barbara De
American Expert on Relationship and Love Author
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Anger
Angelou, Maya
1928 African-American poet Writer Performer
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Anger
Antonius, Marcus
c83-30 BC Roman Triumvir Related to Julius Caesar
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Anger
Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — this is not easy.
Anger
Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger
Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
Anger
Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Anger
Bach, George R.
Anger makes dull men witty — but it keeps them poor.
Anger
Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
Anger
Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Anger
Barrie, Sir James M.
1860-1937 British Playwright
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
Anger
Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Anger
Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
Anger
Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]
Anger
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Anger
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil’s Dictionary
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Anger
Bohn, H. G.
British Publisher
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Anger
Boyes, John F.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Anger
Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Anger
Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Anger
Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Anger
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Anger
Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
No person is important enough to make me angry.
Anger
Castaneda, Carlos
American Anthropologist Author
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anger
Cato The Elder
BC 234-149 Roman Statesman Orator
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Anger
Clarendon
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Anger
Colby, Frank Moore
1865-1925 American Editor Essayist
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger
Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Anger
Congreve, William
1670-1729 British Dramatist
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
Anger
Curtis, George William
1824-1892 American Journalist
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
Anger
Dhammapada
BC 300 Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
Anger as soon as fed is dead; ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger
Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
Anger
Diller, Phyllis
1861-1951 American Columnist
There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Anger
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
Anger
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out — because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Anger
Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Go ahead, make my day.
Anger
Eastwood, Clint
1930 American Actor Director Politician Composer Musician Producer
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Anger
Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Anger
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We boil at different degrees.
Anger
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Anger
Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Anger
Francis De Sales, St.
1567-1622 Roman Catholic Bishop Writer
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
Anger
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
Anger
Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician – Founder of Psychoanalysis
Act nothing in a furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.
Anger
Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Anger
Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Anger
Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Anger
Gandhi, Indira
1917-1984 Indian Prime Minster
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Anger
Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
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Gaulle, Charles De
1890-1970 French President during World War II
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Anger
Gracian, Baltasar
1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
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Gregory The Great, St.
c 540-604 Italian Pope
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Halifax, Edward F.
1881-1959 British Conservative Statesman
Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Anger
Halifax, Edward F.
1881-1959 British Conservative Statesman
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Anger
Harris, Sidney J.
1917 American Journalist
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Anger
Henry, M.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Anger
Hillard, G. S.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Anger
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Anger is short madness
Anger
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Anger
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Anger
Hull, Bobby
American Hockey Player
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
Anger
Ingersoll, Robert Green
1833-1899 American Orator Lawyer
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger
Ingersoll, Robert Green
1833-1899 American Orator Lawyer
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Anger
Irving, Washington
1783-1859 American Author
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Anger
Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Anger
Joubert, Joseph
1754-1824 French Moralist
A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.
Anger
Kundera, Milan
1929 Czech Author Critic
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Anger
Landor, Walter Savage
1775-1864 British Poet Essayist
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Anger
Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Anger
Magnus, Saint Albertus
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Anger
Maxim, Samurai
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
Anger
Mckay, David O.
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Anger
Mizner, Wilson
1876-1933 American Author
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Anger
Montapert, Alfred A.
American Author
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Anger
Paley, Babe
Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Anger
Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Anger
Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Anger
Proverb
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Proverb
No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
Anger
Proverb
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
Anger
Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Anger
Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
Anger
Proverb, Malabar
Sayings of Malabar Origin
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Anger
Quarles, Francis
1592-1644 British Poet
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Anger
Quincey, Thomas De
1785-1859 British Author
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Anger
Renard, Jules
1864-1910 French Author Dramatist
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
Anger
Riley, James Whitcomb
1849-1916 American Poet
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Anger
Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Anger
Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I’m sorry.
Anger
Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Anger
Secker, Thomas
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Anger
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Anger
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Anger
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Anger
Shenstone, William
1714-1763 British Poet
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Anger
Sivananda, Sri Swami
1887 Indian Physician Sage
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Anger
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
I lose my temper, but it’s all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!
Anger
Sweeting, George
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Anger
Syrus, Publilius
1st Century BC Roman Writer
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Anger
Thurber, James
1894-1961 American Humorist Illustrator
Depression is rage spread thin.
Anger
Tillich, Paul
1886-1965 German Protestant Theologian Philosopher
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Anger
Tupper, Martin
1810-1889 British Author Poet Inventor
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Anger
Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Anger
Unknown, Source
Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.
Anger
Unknown, Source
When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.
Anger
Unknown, Source
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Anger
Unknown, Source
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Anger
Unknown, Source
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there’s anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
Anger
Unknown, Source
No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.
Anger
Unknown, Source
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
Anger
Unknown, Source
Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay
Anger
Unknown, Source
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger
Unknown, Source
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Anger
Watts, Alan W.
1915-1973 British-born American Philosopher Author
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Anger
Webster, Daniel
1782-1852 American Lawyer Statesman
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Anger
Webster, John
1580-1625 British Dramatist
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
Anger
White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
1899-1985 American Author Editor