Anger

(64 votes)   To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Alan W. Watts
1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author

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(63 votes)   There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

John Webster
1580-1625, British Dramatist

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(62 votes)   The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(62 votes)   There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Jules Renard
1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist

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(61 votes)   Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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(57 votes)   A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(56 votes)   He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

Dhammapada
BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism

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(53 votes)   A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(53 votes)   Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

St. Gregory The Great
c. 540-604, Italian Pope

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(52 votes)   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.

Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

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(52 votes)   Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

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(49 votes)   The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(48 votes)   No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Source Unknown

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(46 votes)   Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

David O. Mckay

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(46 votes)   Go ahead, make my day.

Clint Eastwood
1930-, American Actor, Director, Politician, Composer, Musician, Producer

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