Anger Quotes - Page 32

• The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  World, Limits, Pity

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• The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

  Aesop

  Opportunity, Rage, Quarrels

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

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• Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

  Ovid

  Men, Becoming, Fierce

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• Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

  Saadi

  Opportunity, Hands, Brain

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• Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

  Albert Camus

  Done, Lasts, Argument

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• Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Remember You, Remembers You, Let Down

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.32, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Rage, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.127, Penguin

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• A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

  Paul Newman

  Feuds, Forgotten, Rage

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• We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

  William Hazlitt

  Long, Imagination, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1916, Delphi Classics

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• It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Numbers, Long

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Laughter, Animal

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  Ovid

  Time, Hate, Ice

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Wine, Order, Oil

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• Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

  Margery Allingham

  Alcohol, Perception, Devil

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.170, Ipso Books

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• My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

  Gregory Hines

  Dream, Character, Years

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• I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Men, Hatred

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Letting Go, Disappointment, Grief

  Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam

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• Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

  Mother Teresa

  Fear, Doe, Achieve

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• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

  Plutarch

  Men, Savages, Beast

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

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• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  Colley Cibber

  Hell, Fury, Scorned

  Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49

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• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Evil, Misery

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

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• When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Letters

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Understanding, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

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• Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

  Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Ocean

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• Most women have no characters at all.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Character

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.2.

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