1. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.-Chinese Proverb
2. A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.-Maori (on anger)
3. A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.-Benjamin Franklin
4. Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
5. A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.-Benjamin Franklin
6. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?-Sydney J. Harris
7. He who angers you conquers you.-Elizabeth Kenny
8. Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.-German Proverb
9. Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.-English (on anger)
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10. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.-Bruce Lee
11. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.-Robert Green Ingersoll
12. Anger is one letter short of danger.-Eleanor Roosevelt Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.-Eckhart Tolle
13. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.-Cherie Carter-Scott
14. 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.-Baptist Beacon
16. You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.-Indira Gandhi
17. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.-Maya Angelou
18. 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
19. Beware the fury of a patient man.-Publilius Syrus
20. Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.-Lyman Abbott
21. Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.-Bohdi Sanders
22. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.-Albert Einstein
23. The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.-Gautama Buddha
24. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.-Ambrose Bierce
25. At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.-Marshall B. Rosenberg
26. A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.-Garrison Keillor
27. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.-Benjamin Franklin
28. Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.-Chinese Proverb
29. Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.-Ellen Hopkins
30. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.-Marcus Aurelius
31. “Never go to bed angry, stay up, and fight.” -William Congreve
32. “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” -George Jean Nathan
33. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” -Benjamin Franklin
34. “Violent anger makes me physically ill.” -Langston Hughes
35. “The taste of grudge eradicates the taste of cherries..” -Alice Walker
36. “One of man’s greatest obligations is anger.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
37. “Angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.” -John McAfee
38. “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” -Indira Gandhi
39. “Anything done in anger can be done better without it.” -Dallas Willard
40. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” -Confucius
41. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” -Eckhart Tolle
42. “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” -Mark Twain
43. “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” -Mark Twain
44. “The greatest remedy for anger is a delay.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
45. “Never strike your wife — even with a flower.” -Hindu Proverb
46. “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.” -William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
47. “Good resolutions are seldom made in anger.” -James Lendall Basford
48. “The velocity of anger. The delay of gratitude.” -Dr. SunWolf
49. “Exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.” -Kahlil Gibran
50. “There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.” -Wayne Dyer
51. “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my toxins.” -Neil Kinnock
52. “I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.” -Jim Webb
53. “Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” -Elizabeth I
54. “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” -Alexander Pope
55. “Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
56. “He who angers you conquers you.” -Elizabeth Kenny
57. “The best fighter is never angry.” -Lao Tzu
58. “Anger can be a useful emotion; it’s built into our genetic code to help with self-preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.” -Michael Hayden
59. “Holding anger is poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.” -Mitch Albom
60. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” -Maya Angelou
61. “Anger is smoke, revenge a consuming fire.” -James Lendall Basford
62. “Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.” -George Savile
63. “Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.” -Thomas Fuller
64. “Anger is the enemy of non-violence, and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” -Mahatma Gandhi
65. “Anger is short-lived madness.” -Horace Fletcher
66. “Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.” -George William Curtis
67. “Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.” -Kazi Shams
68. “Anger is like a storm rising from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
69. “Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You have to make a choice.” -Jim Butcher
70. “Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.” -Benjamin Franklin
71. “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.” -Mark Twain
72. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” -Plato
74. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” -Mahatma Gandhi
75. “Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
76. “Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.” -English
77. “There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.” -Sylvester Stallone
78. “Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.” -Grace Kelly
79. “People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” -Stephen Hawking
80. “Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” -Baltasar Gracian
81. “The anger of the prudent never shows.” -Burmese
82. “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
83. “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” -Joseph Joubert
84. “Anger and worry are the rankest forms of Egotism.” -Horace Fletcher
85. “If you kick a stone in anger, you will hurt your foot.” -Korean
86. “Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.” -Tagalog
87. “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” -Mahatma Gandhi
88. “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” -Will Rogers
89. “Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.” -German Proverb
90. “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” -Benjamin Franklin
91. “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” -Chinese Proverb
92. “There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.” -Saint Francis de Sales
93. “I get angry about things, then go on and work.” -Toni Morrison
94. “The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.” -Mehmet Oz
95. “He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.” -Sallust
96. “Anger as soon as fed is dead -‘Tis starving makes it fa.” -Emily Dickinson
97. “Beware the fury of a patient man.” -Publilius Syrus
98. “When you learn that truth is a lie, anger follows.” -Grace Slick
99. “Anger’s not a good emotion.” -Lincoln Chafee’s