Anger - Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller; more
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
-- Cato
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
-- Chinese proverb
It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
-- Aristotle
Had Narcissus himself seen his own face when he had been angry, he could never have fallen in love with himself.
-- Thomas Fuller
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
-- Proverbs 16:32
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
-- Martin Luther
An angry man stirreth up strife.
-- Proverbs 29:22
Anger is a better sign of the heart than of the head; it is a breaking out of the disease of honesty.
-- Marquess of Halifax
Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
-- Ecclesiastes 7:9
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
-- Ephesians 4:26
Anger punishes itself.
-- As quoted in Bob Phillips, Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1993), p. 18. |
