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My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again to‑morrow. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, "Jo Meets Apollyon," 1868
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author unknown
Anger is one letter short of danger. ~Author unknown
Long tongues and short tempers are usually mated. ~Minna Thomas Antrim (1861–1950), Knocks Witty, Wise and —, 1905
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. ~Eckhart Tolle
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. ~Baptist Beacon
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I dipped my pen in gall and it composed a foolish, bitter letter, for which I beg a thousand pardons. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, 1670
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese proverb
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows
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
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean proverb
Anger as soon as fed is dead –
'Tis starving makes it fat –
~Emily Dickinson, 1881
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese proverb
Laughter is a feather. Anger is stone. ~Terri Guillemets, "Be Light," 1998
ANGER always hurts me worse than it does the fellow I'm mad at. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
Anger and worry are caused by phantoms that we create within ourselves and whose only strength is that with which we endow them. ~Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan
Anger is short-lived madness. ~Horace
Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you. ~Terri Guillemets
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left. ~Author unknown
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.
~William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, c.1607 [IV, 2, Volumnia]
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
When I get mad, I stop being mad and be awesome instead. ~Internet meme
The taste
of
grudge
destroys
completely
the
taste
of
cherries...
~Alice Walker, from "The Taste of Grudge," Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, 2010
Anger and worry are the most unprofitable conditions known to man. They are like thieves that steal precious time and energy from life. Anger is a highway robber and worry is a sneak thief. ~Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895 [a little altered —tg]
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott
Anger is smoke, revenge a consuming fire. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
people are strange: they are constantly angered by
trivial things,
but on a major matter
like
totally wasting their lives,
they hardly seem to
notice...
~Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
Don't let your anger take the shape of fists. ~Terri Guillemets, "Rather, shape a delightful morning," 2007
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment. ~Dodinsky
All of the evil passions are traceable to one of two roots. Anger is the root of all the aggressive passions. Worry is the root of all the cowardly passions.... It is not necessary to engage in battle the small army of lesser passions if you concentrate your efforts against anger and worry, for they are all children of these parents. ~Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895
Good resolutions are seldom made in anger. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Frustration is anger caged in impatience. ~Terri Guillemets
Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author unknown
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. ~Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger and folly walk cheek by jole; repentance treads on both their heels. ~Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. ~Benjamin Franklin
The velocity of anger.
The tardiness of gratitude.
~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. ~Lemony Snicket
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese proverb
They teach that he who hates shall be hated, and that the one who gets angry shall be punished by anger, and that all sin is punished by it and not for it. ~"Sin," Health Magazine, December 1905
Anger and worry are the rankest forms of Egotism. ~Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895
If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down? ~Author unknown
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author unknown
Hatred is like a poison which you inject into your veins, before injecting it into your enemy. It is throwing cow dung at another: you dirty your hands first, before you dirty others. ~Buddhist Missionary Society
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca
Anything done in anger can be done better without it. ~Dallas Willard
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
Never strike your wife — even with a flower. ~Hindu proverb
If you speak when angry, you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. ~Groucho Marx
Changing from ‘kind regards’ to just ‘regards’, to indicate that you’re rapidly reaching the end of your tether. ~Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish, Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time, 2013
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain
Anger makes your life — and your body — off-key. All bitter emotions do. ~Terri Guillemets, "A turning trial by fire," 1999
Anger is a bad counselor. ~French proverb
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong. ~Wilson Mizner
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~William H. Walton
Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. ~Terri Guillemets, "Boom box philosophies," 1992
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
We can never drown anger and worry; yet, if let alone, they drown themselves. ~Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895 [a little altered —tg]
Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned. ~Terri Guillemets
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