Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon
8,581

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans
5,921

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus
4,902

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus
4,886

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius
2,182

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X
1,958

He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.

German Proverb
1,286

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
280

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Pope Paul Vi
273

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Dr. Willard Gaylin
267

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo
228

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Dr. Robert Anthony
221

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson
220

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

M. Kathleen Casey
217

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Bill Klem
204

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher
200

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato
198

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Sappho
194

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

Laurence J. Peter
192

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll
187

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner
185

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters
175

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden
172

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter Scott
165

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Daniel Webster
140

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud
140

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Marcus Aurelius
138

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I
123

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

Edward G. Bulwer lytton
53