ANGER

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William R. Alger

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Thomas Fuller

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Seneca

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.
Helen Alfredsson

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis

It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott

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

When birds fight it is the ears that suffer; but when people fight it is the children who suffer.
Greg Evans

''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!
George Sweeting

Anger is short madness
Horace

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Thomas Carlyle

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred A. Montapert

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.
Akhenaton

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.
Milan Kundera

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Henry Ward Beecher

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Plato

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Wilson Mizner

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

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
E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Sir James M. Barrie

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Proverbs

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Source Unknown

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
Proverbs

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Source Unknown

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor

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.
George William Curtis

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
James Baldwin

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
H. G. Bohn

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
Charles De Gaulle

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverbs

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.
M. Henry

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Martin Tupper

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.
Source Unknown

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas De Quincey

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Seneca

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
Bible

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Edward F. Halifax

Anger cannot be dishonest.
George R. Bach

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.
G. S. Hillard

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.
Alan W. Watts

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
John Webster

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Jules Renard

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.
Clarendon