Famous Quotes about Anger (137 Quotations)

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.

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

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Anger is short madness

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.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Anger makes dull men witty — but it keeps them poor.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Anger rest in the bosom of fools.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

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

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — this is not easy.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.