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If a small thing has the power to make you
angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J.
Harris
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of
those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas
He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown
Anger is one letter short of danger. ~Author Unknown
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed
often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil
because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis
Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate
circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
~Mark Twain
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to
die. ~Malachy McCourt
Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.
~Emily Dickinson
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean
Proverb
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese
Proverb
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~Albert Einstein
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean
Nathan
Anger is short-lived madness. ~Horace
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects
than love. ~George Eliot
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You
may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's
hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's
precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The
Confidence Course, 1997
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be
angry. ~Lyman Abbott
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. ~Author Unknown
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. ~Sweetpea Tyler
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James
Fallows
Anger and folly walk cheek by jole. ~Benjamin Franklin
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve
whatever problem is causing them. ~Lemony Snicket
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author
Unknown
Can anger survive without his hypocrisy? ~Jareb Teague
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
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca
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
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret. ~Ambrose Bierce
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain,
Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I
have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they
were wrong. ~Wilson Mizner
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~William
H. Walton
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline
Schiff
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
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief,
than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
~Marcus Antonius
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Quotations about Anger