Quotes

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
-Jareb Teague

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller

Anger is one letter short of danger.
-Bede Jarrett

Get mad, then get over it.
-Colin Powell

Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
-Sweetpea Tyler

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain

He who angers you conquers you.
-Elizabeth Kenny

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-Albert Einstein

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
-William H. Walton

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
-James Fallows

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
-Sydney J. Harris

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

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
-Mark Twain

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
-Lyman Abbott

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

Anger is a bad counselor.
-French Proverb

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Bede Jarrett

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
-George Jean Nathan

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
-Jacqueline Schiff

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
-Marshall B. Rosenberg

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
-Lemony Snicket

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
-Seneca

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
-Malachy McCourt

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
-Will Rogers

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
-Robert G. Ingersoll

Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
-Hindu Proverb

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
-Neil Kinnock

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

Anger is short-lived madness
-Horace

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

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
-Benjamin Franklin

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
-Bede Jarrett

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
-Bede Jarrett

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
-Korean Proverb

Never write a letter while you are angry.
-Chinese Proverb

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
-Bede Jarrett

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-Ambrose Bierce

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
-Wilson Mizner

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
-Chinese Proverb

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
-George Eliot

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
-Mignon McLaughlin

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
-Alexandre Dumas