Anger Quotes, Sayings about being Angry

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools – Albert Einstein.

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen – Alexandre Dumas.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret – Ambrose Bierce.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough – Bede Jarrett.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole – Benjamin Franklin.

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

Get mad, then get over it – Colin Powell.

When anger rises, think of the consequences – Confucius.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words – Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret – Dr. Laurence J. Peter.

The angry people are those people who are most afraid – Dr. Robert Anthony.

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton.

He who angers you conquers you – Elizabeth Kenny.

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations – Elliott Larson.

Anger as soon as fed is dead – ‘Tis starving makes it fat – Emily Dickinson.

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched – George Jean Nathan.

Anger is short-lived madness – Horace.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk – Jacqueline Schiff.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them – James Fallows.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness – James Thurber.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil – Joan Chittister.

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

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.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry – Lyman Abbott.

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

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear – Mark Twain.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins – Neil Kinnock.

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love – Publilius Syrus.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind – Robert G. Ingersoll.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison – Seneca.

Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger – Sweetpea Tyler.

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

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

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses – William Arthur Ward.

I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow – William Blake.

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

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry – Winston Churchill.

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