Anger
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Anger is a common emotional response to real or imagined threats or harm to oneself or others.
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- In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, chapter 1. (Second novel of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).
- We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
- As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ·
- Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
- Iratus semplar plus putat posse facere quam possit.
- The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
- Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolations
- Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
- Anyone can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy.
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1679)
- Anger is like ruin,It breaks itself upon which it falls.
- Hatred is self-punishment.
- Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
- When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
- I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow. - William Blake
- Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
- Your anger is a gift.
- When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
- Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
- Dangers by being despised grow great.
- Edmund Burke, Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 1792
- An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Hatred is inveterate anger.
- Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
- The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
- When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
- William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
- For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is an old rule.
- He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
- Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
- Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- Remember to not only say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
- When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
- Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
- Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
- Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
- From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Captain Ahab to Moby-Dick in Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
- Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
- Anger is like cancer, It wont stop until it consumes every last bit of you
- When you're pushed, killing is easy as breathing
- Rambo, Rambo 4
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- Anger does nobody good, but patience is the father of kindness
- Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
- Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
- Malabar Proverb
- Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- My passions flare, I weep in sadness, wallow in despair, my passions change, anger reigns, now all lie in fear.
