Sayings about Anger
No one is as angry as the person who is wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~ Chinese Proverb
When you are very angry, don’t go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don’t be a poet. ~ Chinese Proverb
Better a night full of anger than a night full of repentance. ~ Hebrew Proverb
He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
The anger of a woman is mighty and the devil’s trickery weak. ~ Tunisian Proverbs
One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life. ~ Greek Proverbs
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. ~ Traditional Proverb
Time is anger’s medicine. ~ German Proverbs
By getting angry, you show you are wrong. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~ Chinese Proverb
Anger is a short madness. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Hatred is a settled anger. ~ Latin Proverbs
If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy. ~ Chinese Proverb
In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man’s letter. ~ Chinese Proverb
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. ~ Malabar Proverb
To act in anger is like tying up a ship in a storm. ~ German Proverb
When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry. ~ Yoruba Proverb
The best answer to anger is silence. ~ German Proverb
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot. ~ Korean Proverbs
A lover’s anger is short-lived. ~ Italian Proverbs
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Chinese Proverb
Anger is a bad counselor. ~ French Proverb
When the wise man gets angry, he stops being wise. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow. ~ Filipino Proverbs
The anger of the prudent never shows. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Anger ends in cruelty. ~ Indian Proverbs
To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting. ~ Senegalese Proverb
When anger comes, does wisdom go. ~ Indian Proverbs
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb
Always keep calm in an emergency. ~ Chinese Proverb
A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. ~ Arabian Proverb
A hungry man is an angry man. ~ English Proverbs
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. ~ English Proverbs
Anger is the thorn in the heart. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty. ~ Russian Proverb
When sheep get angry they are worse than wolves. ~ French Proverb
Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~ Italian Proverbs
The angry hammer works off his fury on the steel. ~ Arabian Proverb
It is better to walk fast than to grow angry at the forest. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Anger has no eyes. ~ Hindi Proverb
Quotations about Anger
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well. ~ Martin Luther
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ~ Thomas Fuller
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. ~ Plato
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better. ~ Tryon Edwards
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. ~ Bible
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ~ David O. McKay
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ~ Edward F. Halifax
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ~ Maya Angelou
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ~ Barbara De Angelis
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 a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. ~ Samurai Maxim
My mother used to say, “He who angers you conquers you.” ~ Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ~ H. G. Bohn
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. ~ Daniel Webster
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. ~ Thomas Secker
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. ~ Cato The Elder
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ~ St. Francis De Sales
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ~ St. Gregory The Great
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ Thomas De Quincey
Anger rest in the bosom of fools. ~ Bible
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. ~ Lord Clarendon
Anger is a brief lunacy. ~ Horace
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ~ Horace
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. ~ John Ruskin
There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. ~ Wayne Dyer
Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. ~ Edward F. Halifax
Anger as soon as fed is dead; ‘Tis starving makes it fat. ~ Emily Dickinson
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. ~ Epictetus
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. ~ Publilius Syrus
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ~ Thomas Fuller
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~ Sidney J. Harris
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ~ Walter Savage Landor