Devotions on Anger

Quotations on Anger

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin
*** Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
*** The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca
*** An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
- Cato the Elder
*** Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
- Pythagoras
*** To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
- Tryon Edwards
*** Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
- Daniel Webster
*** Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
- William Rounseville Alger
*** Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- Horace
*** The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
- Walter S. Landor
*** When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
- Thomas C. Haliburton
*** 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.
- Matthew Henry
*** Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
*** Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
- Mahatma Gandhi
*** When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
*** Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
*** Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
- Lord Halifax
*** An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Publilius Syrus
*** The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.
- Charles Caleb Colton
*** Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
*** Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
- Gabrielle Reece
*** For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
*** Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
- Euripides
*** It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
- Bertrand Russell
*** How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius
*** 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.
- Carl Sandburg
*** Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- Edward Abbey
*** Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
- Emily Dickinson
*** Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
- Beverly Sills
*** Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
- Cato the Elder
*** Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
*** Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce
*** 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
*** Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
*** 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
*** The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
- Bede Jarrett
*** He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
*** 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'Amour
*** No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Jean Nathan
*** Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell
*** One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- William Butler Yeats
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