To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'
When you get angry, your options narrow.
Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
