Anger punishes itself. [ Proverb ]
Anger is a sworn enemy. [ Proverb ]
Anger is self-immolation. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Anger is a short madness. [ Horace ]
Hatred is a settled anger. [ Cicero ]
Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]
Abused patience turns to fury. [ Quarles ]
In love, anger is always false. [ Publius Syrus ]
Anger is practical awkwardness. [ Colton ]
Anger manages everything badly. [ Stadius ]
Rage and anger hurry on the mind. [ Virgil ]
Pale anger is the devil's visage. [ Proverb ]
Keep cool. Anger is not argument. [ Daniel Webster ]
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. [ Burns ]
A temperate anger has virtue in it. [ Haliburton ]
Anger is short-lived in a good man. [ Proverb ]
The anger of kings is always heavy. [ Seneca ]
Time is the greatest remedy for anger. [ Seneca ]
Their rage supplies them with weapons. [ Virgil ]
Temperate anger well becomes the wise. [ Philemon ]
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. [ Fuller ]
Never anger made good guard for itself. [ William Shakespeare ]
Yelping curs may anger mastiffs at last. [ Proverb ]
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [ Bible ]
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
And silent, settles into full revenge. [ Thomson ]
Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger.
Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul. [ Proverb ]
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,
How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart!
Those escape thy anger who refuse thy sway,
And those are punished most who most obey. [ Prior ]
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action. [ Savage ]
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [ Ovid ]
Mortal man must not keep up immortal anger. [ Proverb ]
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]
When anger rises, think of the consequences. [ Confucius ]
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. [ Zimmermann ]
Men in rage strike those that wish them best. [ William Shakespeare ]
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
Striking, and not making it felt, is anger lost. [ Proverb ]
Anger makes dull men witty, but keeps them poor. [ Bacon ]
There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]
I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]
There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]
It is he who is in the wrong who first gets angry. [ William Penn ]
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. [ Proverb ]
Look in the glass when you with anger glow,
And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. [ Ovid ]
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. [ W. R. Alger ]
As fire is kindled by bellows, so is anger by words. [ Proverb ]
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. [ Edwards ]
The anger is not warrantable that hath seen two suns. [ Proverb ]
Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned. [ Proverb ]
He who subdues his anger conquers his greatest enemy. [ Proverb ]
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. [ South ]
Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereon it falls. [ Seneca ]
Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger. [ Sir J. Denham ]
Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the entrance. [ Plutarch ]
There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. [ Seneca ]
Erasmus injured us more by his wit than Luther by his anger. [ Leo X ]
To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry? [ William Shakespeare ]
He best restrains anger who remembers God's eye is upon him. [ Plato ]
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger. [ George Eliot ]
When you enter into a house leave the anger ever at the door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]
To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. [ Pope ]
Who values that anger which is consumed only in empty menaces? [ Goldsmith ]
Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it. [ Proverb ]
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [ Jefferson ]
What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong. [ Richter ]
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. [ Seneca ]
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. [ Richardson ]
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. [ Addison ]
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. [ J. G. Holland ]
Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers. [ Duncan ]
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger. [ Voltaire ]
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. [ Plato ]
He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin. [ Seeker ]
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. [ George Eliot ]
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! [ William Shakespeare ]
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. [ Swift ]
He that punishes another in anger, shall feel it himself when the fit is over. [ Proverb ]
There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts. [ Bacon ]
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. [ Tillotson ]
Anger has some claim to indulgence, and railing is usually a relief to the mind. [ Junius ]
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces. [ Seneca ]
The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten his enemies. [ Chillon ]
Anger is not only the prevailing sin of argument, but its greatest stumbling-block. [ Gladstone ]
Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. [ Congreve ]
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosoms of fools. [ Proverb ]
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. [ William Shakespeare ]
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. [ Johnson ]
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided. [ Lord Collingwood ]
If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it. [ Seneca ]
He that condemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. [ L'Estrange ]
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after. [ Dean Swift ]
Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. [ George Eliot ]
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]
In destroying the predisposition to anger, science of all kinds is useful; but the mathematics possess the property in the most eminent degree. [ Dr. Rush ]
He is a wise man who knoweth that his words should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. [ Hitopadesa ]
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]
Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]