Never write a letter while you are angry.
—Chinese Proverb
By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Be not easily moved to anger.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
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 G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before—it takes something from him.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
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.
—Buddhist Teaching
Sow discord, reap regret.
—Arabic Proverb
When the wise is angry, he is wise no longer.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
He who can suppress a moment’s anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
—Tryon Edwards American Theologian
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–89) English Poet, Writer
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
—Indian Proverb
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
Get mad, then get over it.
—Colin Powell (1937–2021) American Military Leader
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
—Pythagoras (570–495 BCE) Greek Philosopher
To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Speak when you are angry—and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-born American Educator, Author
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Anger is a brief madness.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
—Chinese Proverb
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
—George William Curtis (1824–92) American Essayist, Public Speaker, Editor, Author
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
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 (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
—Common Proverb
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist