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To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another. - Pope Agapet It takes two flints to make a fire. - Louisa May Alcott Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. - William R. Alger The angry people are those people who are most afraid. - Robert Anthony For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. - John Armstrong Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. - Berthold Auerbach An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks. - Francis Bacon No man is angry that feels not himself hurt. - Francis Bacon Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Francis Bacon, Certain Apophthegms of Lord Bacon (no. IV) Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. - Honore de Balzac A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. - Henry Ward Beecher If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall riot 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 wrong, but the coals are. - Henry Ward Beecher Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. - Henry Ward Beecher Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. - Bible, Ephesians (ch. IV, v. 26-27) He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32) 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, Christian Forbearance Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. - John Frederick Boyes Anger is self-immolation. - Phillips Brooks Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Joyce Brothers Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. - Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter (l. 12) Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. - Charles Buxton An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Are you angry? Look at the child who has erred, he suspects no trouble, he dreams of no harm; you will borrow something of that innocence, you will feel appeased. - Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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