Reflective Account

Quotations about Anger

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, www.robertbrault.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

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

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.  ~Will Rogers

Never write a letter while you are angry.  ~Chinese Proverb

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

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes 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, www.robertbrault.com

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

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.  ~Chinese Proverb
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.  ~Albert Einstein

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

Anger is short-lived madness.  ~Horace

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