Sunday, June 13, 2010 – Regarding Anger
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~ George Eliot
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~ Albert Einstein
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’Amour
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. ~ Thomas Fuller
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ~ Maya Angelou
Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ~ Willard Gaylin
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~ Sydney J. Harris
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. ~ Daniel Webster
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ~ William Butler Yeats
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~ Mark Twain
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him. ~ Wil Wheaton
Everybody in America is angry about something. ~ Anthony Braxton
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ~ George Eliot
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
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. ~ Sigmund Freud
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ~ Benjamin Spock
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ~ Christopher Morley
You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love. ~ Publilius Syrus
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ~ Frank Moore Colby
I was so angry to realize I’m a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup. ~ Jean Claude Lauzon
It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. ~ Joe Moore
We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once. ~ Ray Blanton
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. ~ Charles de Gaulle
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~ Alexandre Dumas
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong. ~ Wilson Mizner
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
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~ Malachy McCourt
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back – in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. ~ Frederick Buechner
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~ William H. Walton
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ~ Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ William Saroyan
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