Anger

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A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day.

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— Arabian Proverb

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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— Maya Angelou

Anger as soon as fed is dead
Tis starving makes it fat.

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— Emily Dickinson

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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— Seneca

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

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— Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

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— Carl Sandburg

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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— Seneca

Never write a letter while you are angry.

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— Chinese Proverb

Anger is a bad counsellor.

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— French Proverb

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

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

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— English Proverb

If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.

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— Korean Proverb

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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— Confucius

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

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— Chinese Proverb

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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— Mohandas Gandhi

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

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— Marcus Aurelius

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.

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— Louis L'Amour

Source: Mojave Crossing - 1981

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

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— Ambrose Bierce

Take it from Richard, poor and lame,
what’s begun in anger ends in shame.

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— Benjamin Franklin

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack - 1747

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

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— Sappho

Source: Fragment - 27

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

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— Mark Twain

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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— Plato

He who has conquered anger has achieved a great victory in life.

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— Gandhi

It’s a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it s to be angry with a car that won’t go.

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— Bertrand Russell

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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— Chinese Proverb

Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger.

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— Cambodian Proverb

Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.

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— Aristotle

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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— Pythagoras

Beware the fury of a patient man.

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— John Dryden

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

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— Socrates