Anger

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A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.      

Maori (on anger)

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A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.      

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.      

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

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Anger is a short madness.      

Horace (65-8 BC)

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Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.      

English (on anger)

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Anger is one letter short of danger.      

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

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Clouds gather before a storm.      

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Don’t get your back up.      

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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.      

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.      

German Proverb

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Hard words break no bones.      

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.      

Chinese Proverb

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If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.      

Korean (on anger)

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Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.      

Tagalog (Filipino) (on anger)

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Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd take warning.      

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The anger of the prudent never shows.      

Burmese (on anger)

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.      

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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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He who angers you conquers you.     

Elizabeth Kenny

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Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.     

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.     

Eckhart Tolle

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.     

Baptist Beacon

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.     

Maya Angelou

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

Ambrose Bierce

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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.     

William Arthur Ward

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Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.     

Bohdi Sanders

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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.     

Mitch Albom

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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.     

Benjamin Franklin

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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.     

Bruce Lee

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You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.     

Indira Gandhi