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Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
- Lemony Snicket


I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
- Bede Jarrett


Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
- Jareb Teague


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


Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
- Seneca


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


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain


Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Malachy McCourt


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
- Korean Proverb


Anger is one letter short of danger.
- Bede Jarrett


Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- Will Rogers


Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb


Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell


Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
- Lyman Abbott


Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert G. Ingersoll


Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
- Bede Jarrett


Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
- Sweetpea Tyler


Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Armour


Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
- Hindu Proverb


Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce


When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain


Anger is a bad counselor.
- French Proverb


Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
- Neil Kinnock


The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
- Wilson Mizner


He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Bede Jarrett


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Antonius


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
- Chinese Proverb


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein


No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Jean Nathan


Anger is short-lived madness
- Horace


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot


To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
- William H. Walton


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
- Elbert Hubbard


Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
- James Fallows


At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg


Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
- Benjamin Franklin


There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
- Alexandre Dumas


If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- Sydney J. Harris


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