"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."

Riley, James Whitcomb on anger   

"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

Landor, Walter Savage on anger   

"A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth."

Kundera, Milan on anger   

"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

Irving, Washington on anger   

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on anger
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"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on anger
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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

Carlyle, Thomas on anger
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"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat."

Boyes, John F. on anger   

"Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]"

Bible on anger
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"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

Luther, Martin on anger
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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."

Magnus, Saint Albertus on anger   

"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."

Quincey, Thomas De on anger   

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."

Renard, Jules on anger   

"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."

Quarles, Francis on anger
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"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Proverb, Malabar on anger
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Proverb, Chinese on anger
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"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

Proverb on anger
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"Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."

Pilgrim, Peace on anger
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"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."

Paley, Babe on anger   

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

Montapert, Alfred A. on anger
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"The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong."

Mizner, Wilson on anger
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"Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger."

Mckay, David O. on anger
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"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai on anger
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."

Bohn, H. G. on anger   

"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]"

Bible on anger
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

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

Antonius, Marcus on anger
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Angelou, Maya on anger
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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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"I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over."

Alfredsson, Helen on anger   

"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on affection
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"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it."

Shaw, George Bernard on affection   

"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

Lubbock, Sir John on affection
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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on affection
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"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

Hunt, Leigh on affection
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