Anger Quotes and Sayings

He who angers you conquers you.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Get mad, then get over it.

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

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

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

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Anger is short-lived madness.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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.

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

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

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

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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.

Never strike your wife - even with a flower.

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

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Anger is a bad counselor.

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

The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

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.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

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

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

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