Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
--Daniel Webster
There is not in nature, a thing
that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
--John Webster
Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
--Bible
As the whirlwind in its fury
teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake
in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man
throweth mischief around him.
--Akhenaton
Indulge not thyself in the passion
of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy
friend.
--Akhenaton
It takes two flints to make a
fire.
--Louisa May Alcott
I used to store my anger and
it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner.
I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
--Helen Alfredsson
Men often make up in wrath what
they want in reason.
--William R. Alger
The more anger towards the past
you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
--Barbara De Angelis
Bitterness is like cancer. It
eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
--Maya Angelou
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
Anyone can become angry -- that
is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at
the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not
easy.
--Aristotle
We praise a man who feels angry
on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right
manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
--Aristotle
How much more grievous are the
consequences of anger than the causes of it.
--Marcus Aurelius
When thou art above measure angry,
bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
--Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
--George R. Bach
Anger makes dull men witty --
but it keeps them poor.
--Francis Bacon
Rage cannot be hidden, it can
only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens
rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
--James Baldwin
Temper is a weapon that we hold
by the blade.
--Sir James M. Barrie
If a man meets with injustice,
it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is
angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame
is not wring, but the coals are.
--Henry Ward Beecher
