Quote: Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Author: Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman
Quote: There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Author: John Webster 1580-1625, British Dramatist
Quote: 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
Author: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 1899-1985, American Author, Editor
Quote: 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.
Author: Akhenaton BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist
Quote: Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Author: Akhenaton BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist
Quote: It takes two flints to make a fire.
Author: Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888, American Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Helen Alfredsson American Golfer
Quote: Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Author: William R. Alger 1822-1905, American Writer
Quote: The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Author: Barbara De Angelis American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author
Quote: Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Author: Marcus Antonius c.83-30 BC, Roman Triumvir, Related to Julius Caesar
Quote: 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.
Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: 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.
Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Anger cannot be dishonest.
Author: George R. Bach
Quote: Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Author: H. G. Bohn British Publisher
Quote: Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Author: John F. Boyes
Quote: 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.
Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: 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.
Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: No person is important enough to make me angry.
Author: Carlos Castaneda American Anthropologist, Author
Quote: An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Author: Cato The Elder BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator
Quote: 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.
Author: Clarendon
Quote: I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Author: Frank Moore Colby 1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist
Quote: The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Author: William Congreve 1670-1729, British Dramatist
Quote: 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.
Author: George William Curtis 1824-1892, American Journalist
Quote: He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
Quote: Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
Author: Phyllis Diller 1861-1951, American Columnist
Quote: There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: 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.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: Go ahead, make my day.
Author: Clint Eastwood 1930-, American Actor, Director, Politician, Composer, Musician, Producer
Quote: To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We boil at different degrees.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Author: St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer
Quote: Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Author: Indira Gandhi 1917-1984, Indian Prime Minster
Quote: Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
Author: Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, French President during World War II
Quote: Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
Author: St. Gregory The Great c. 540-604, Italian Pope
Quote: Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Author: Edward F. Halifax 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman
Quote: Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Author: Edward F. Halifax 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman
Quote: If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Author: Sidney J. Harris 1917-, American Journalist
Quote: 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.
Author: M. Henry
Quote: 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.
Author: G. S. Hillard
Quote: Anger is a brief lunacy.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Anger is short madness
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Author: Bobby Hull American Hockey Player
Quote: 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.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer
Quote: Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer
Quote: Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: 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.
Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic
Quote: The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Author: Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Author: Saint Albertus Magnus
Quote: The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Author: Samurai Maxim
Quote: Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
Author: David O. Mckay
Quote: The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Author: Wilson Mizner 1876-1933, American Author
Quote: Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Author: Alfred A. Montapert American Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Babe Paley
Quote: 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.
Author: Peace Pilgrim 1908-1981, American Peace Activist
Quote: He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Author: Proverb
Quote: No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
Author: Proverb
Quote: The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
Author: Proverb
Quote: There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Author: Proverb
Quote: If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Author: Malabar Proverb Sayings of Malabar Origin
Quote: 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.
Author: Francis Quarles 1592-1644, British Poet
Quote: Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Author: Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859, British Author
Quote: There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Author: Jules Renard 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist
Quote: 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.
Author: James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916, American Poet
Quote: The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry.''
Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Author: Thomas Secker
Quote: Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Author: William Shenstone 1714-1763, British Poet
Quote: Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Author: Sri Swami Sivananda 1887-, Indian Physician, Sage
Quote: A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: ''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!
Author: George Sweeting
Quote: An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: Depression is rage spread thin.
Author: Paul Tillich 1886-1965, German Protestant Theologian, Philosopher
Quote: Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Author: Martin Tupper 1810-1889, British Author, Poet, Inventor
Quote: When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.''
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Alan W. Watts 1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author