Sayings about Anger

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~ Chinese Proverb

When you are very angry, don’t go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don’t be a poet. ~ Chinese Proverb

Better a night full of anger than a night full of repentance. ~ Hebrew Proverb

He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time. ~ Hungarian Proverbs

The anger of a woman is mighty and the devil’s trickery weak. ~ Tunisian Proverbs

One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life. ~ Greek Proverbs

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

Time is anger’s medicine. ~ German Proverbs

By getting angry, you show you are wrong. ~ Malagasy Proverbs

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~ Chinese Proverb

Anger is a short madness. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Hatred is a settled anger. ~ Latin Proverbs

If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy. ~ Chinese Proverb

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man’s letter. ~ Chinese Proverb

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. ~ Malabar Proverb

To act in anger is like tying up a ship in a storm. ~ German Proverb

When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry. ~ Yoruba Proverb

The best answer to anger is silence. ~ German Proverb

If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot. ~ Korean Proverbs

A lover’s anger is short-lived. ~ Italian Proverbs

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

Anger is a bad counselor. ~ French Proverb

When the wise man gets angry, he stops being wise. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow. ~ Filipino Proverbs

The anger of the prudent never shows. ~ Myanmar Proverb

Anger ends in cruelty. ~ Indian Proverbs

To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting. ~ Senegalese Proverb

When anger comes, does wisdom go. ~ Indian Proverbs

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb

Always keep calm in an emergency. ~ Chinese Proverb

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. ~ Arabian Proverb

A hungry man is an angry man. ~ English Proverbs

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

Anger is the thorn in the heart. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty. ~ Russian Proverb

When sheep get angry they are worse than wolves. ~ French Proverb

Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~ Italian Proverbs

The angry hammer works off his fury on the steel. ~ Arabian Proverb

It is better to walk fast than to grow angry at the forest. ~ Senegalese Proverb

Anger has no eyes. ~ Hindi Proverb

Quotations about Anger

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well. ~ Martin Luther

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ~ Thomas Fuller

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. ~ Plato

To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better. ~ Tryon Edwards

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. ~ Bible

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ~ David O. McKay

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ~ Edward F. Halifax

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

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ~ Barbara De Angelis

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

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. ~ Samurai Maxim

My mother used to say, “He who angers you conquers you.” ~ Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ~ H. G. Bohn

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. ~ Daniel Webster

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. ~ Thomas Secker

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. ~ Cato The Elder

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ~ St. Francis De Sales

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ~ St. Gregory The Great

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes

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

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Anger rest in the bosom of fools. ~ Bible

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

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. ~ Lord Clarendon

Anger is a brief lunacy. ~ Horace

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ~ Horace

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. ~ John Ruskin

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. ~ Wayne Dyer

Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. ~ Edward F. Halifax

Anger as soon as fed is dead; ‘Tis starving makes it fat. ~ Emily Dickinson

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. ~ Epictetus

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain Quotes

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. ~ Publilius Syrus

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ~ Alfred A. Montapert

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ~ Thomas Fuller

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~ Sidney J. Harris

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ~ Walter Savage Landor