Quotes About Anger II

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.


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


Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb


Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock


Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin


Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows


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


Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca


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'Armour


Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb


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


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


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard


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


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb


Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb


Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell


The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett


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


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain


Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt


Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.
~Emily Dickinson


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb


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