Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

anger

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

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

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

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.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

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

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Anger is a good motivator.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

He who angers you conquers you.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.