Anger Quotes - Page 11

• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Smile

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• When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sound, Calm, Rage

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• Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

  Democritus

  Fighting, Men, Prudent

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• There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

  David Williamson

  Lost, Lots Of Money, Angry

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• When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

  Irene Fernandez

  Eye, Fighting, Broken

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• Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

  Thylias Moss

  Looks

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• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  Jack Abbott

  Moments, Imagine, Hours

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

  David O. McKay

  Passion, Men, Temper

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• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Law, Brain

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

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• Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

  Plutarch

  Doors, Mind, Entrances

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• Deaf rage that hears no leader.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leader, Deaf, Rage

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• Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

  William Shakespeare

  Plunge, Thyself

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.41

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• Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

  Rajneesh

  Keys, Watches, Next

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

  Sappho

  Tongue, Spread, Breaths

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• Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

  William Davenant

  Wrath, Blood, Malice

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• Anger is practical awkwardness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Practicals, Awkwardness

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• Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

  William Hazlitt

  Kind, Spleen

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.23

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• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  William Hazlitt

  Fire, Spirit, Disposition

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• Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Rocks, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
  Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
  Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
  Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
  And fretting grief the enemy of life;
  All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

  Edmund Spenser

  Grief, Wrath, Knives

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• For pale and trembling anger rushes in
  With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare,
  Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas,
  Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

  John Armstrong

  Eye, Sea, Speech

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.63

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Revenge, Fighting, Fever

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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• The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

  John Dryden

  Men, Elephants, Teeth

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• Anger should never be an overnight guest.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Guests, Should

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• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Revenge, Storm, Silent

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