Rage is essentially vulgar.
The best cure for anger is delay.
I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.
Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.
I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
I have a lot of hostility.
I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it.
Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if I'll get to the book. But I'm certainly excited about the day where I can't find the book, and I get to say, 'Where the hell is my anger management book?!'
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.
The best remedy for anger is delay.
In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.