Anger Quotes - Page 9

• Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Government, Political

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lonely, Envy, Tag

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

  William Penn

  Lasts, Strikes, Strokes

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.145

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• In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Passion, Men, Mind

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Angry

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..”, p.1101

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• The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Pay

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• As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

  Henry Fielding

  Recovery, Government, Giving

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.450

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• Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Weak Man, Oil

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• Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Doe, Solve

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• To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

  Tryon Edwards

  Anger Management, Wells, Stills

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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• Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,
  And so shall starve with feeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Meat, Eating, Feeding

  1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

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• If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Love You, Mean, Kissing

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• Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stupid, Opponents, Blades

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• In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

  Emily Giffin

  Grief, Easier, Handle

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.336, Macmillan

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• Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

  Daniel Handler

  Fun, Tantrums, May

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• Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Motivational, Death, Soon Enough

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

  David O. McKay

  Doe, Harm, Conditions

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• He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

  Tryon Edwards

  Sorrow, May, Moments

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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• Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

  George Eliot

  Leaving, Tears, Teeth

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.341

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• Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Bears, Enough

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.500

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Years, Trying, May

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.66, ShandonPress

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• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Rage, Fury

  "The Skeptic as a Critic" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1929.

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• Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Looks, Never Forget

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

  Plutarch

  Men, Self, Glasses

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• Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

  Plutarch

  Men, Angry Man, Owl

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

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