305 private quotes tagged 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.”— Francis Quarles

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”— Phyllis Diller

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”— Epictetus

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”— Thomas a Kempis

“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.”— Alfred A. Montapert

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”— Laurence J. Peter

“Anger is a short madness.”— Horace

“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”— Cato

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?”— Sydney J. Harris

“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”— Baltasar Gracian

“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”— James Fallows

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”— James Thurber

“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”— John Ruskin

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”— George Jean Nathan

“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”— William Congreve

“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”— Baltasar Gracian

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”— Austin O'Malley

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”— Frank Herbert

“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”— Ovid

“Keep cool anger is not an argument.”— Daniel Webster

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

“Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.”— Charles Barkley

“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.”— Mary Garden

“Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?”— Roseanne Barr