Anger Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one ~

~ In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves ~

Abraham J. Heschel

~ Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Bede Jarrett

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

Korean Proverb

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

Korean Proverb

~ Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~

Leo Buscaglia

~ How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~

Marcus Aurelius

~ There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ~

St. Francis De Sales

~ If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~

James Thurber

~ Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ~

Horace

~ Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. ~

Greg Evans

~ Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. ~

Homer

~ 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

~ 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. ~

Edward Hyde Clarendon

~ Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury. ~

James H. Cone

~ Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long. ~

George Crabbe

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

George William Curtis

~ 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. ~

Saint Gregory I

~ Anger should never be an overnight guest. ~

Neal A. Maxwell

~ To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. ~

Tryon Edwards

~ Anger blows out the lamp of the mind ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day ~

Arab Proverb

~ Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words ~

Dr. Joyce

~ He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy ~