Quotes About Anger

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


Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.  ~ Robert C. Ingersoll


Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~ Joseph Joubert


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


A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.  ~ Thomas Fuller


You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.  ~ Siddhārtha Gautama


Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat.  ~ Emily Dickinson


To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.  ~ William H. Walton


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


It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.  ~ Sean O'Casey


There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.  ~ Montaigne


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.  ~ Albert Einstein


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


Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation.  ~ Truman Capote


Beware the fury of a patient man.  ~ John Dryden


At least if I can stay mad I can stay alive.  ~ Magdalena Gomez


Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.   ~ Saint Augustine


Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.  ~ Ian Shoales


Who can refute a sneer?  ~ William Paley


One can't be angry when one looks like a penguin.  ~ John Ruskin


A man is about as big as the things that make him angry  ~ Winston Churchill


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


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller


Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.  ~ Mark Twain


Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.  ~ Ambrose Bierce


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.  ~ Aristotle


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


He who angers you conquers you.  ~ Elizabeth Kenny


Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.  ~ Madeleine Brent


Never forget what a man says to you when he's angry.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


In anger, you look ten years older.  ~ Hedda Hopper


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.  ~ Buddha


When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.  ~ Mark Twain


Anger is a short madness.  ~ Horace


It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.  ~ Mark Twain


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


Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.  ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers


Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.  ~ William Shenstone


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