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

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~Alexandre Dumas

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who angers you conquers you.
~Elizabeth Kenny

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown

Anger is one letter short of danger.
~Author Unknown

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
~Will Rogers

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

Get mad, then get over it.
~Colin Powell

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
~Bede Jarrett

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
~Eckhart Tolle

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
~Mark Twain

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~Malachy McCourt

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

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

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

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

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
~George Jean Nathan

Anger is short-lived madness.
~Horace

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
~George Eliot

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 Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
~Lyman Abbott

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
~Robert G. Ingersoll

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.
~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
~Author Unknown

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
~James Fallows

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
~Marshall B. Rosenberg

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
~Benjamin Franklin

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

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
~Author Unknown

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
~Seneca

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'Armour

Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
~Hindu Proverb

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

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Anger is a bad counselor.
~French Proverb

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
~Neil Kinnock

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
~Wilson Mizner

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~William H. Walton

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
~Jacqueline Schiff

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

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
~Marcus Antonius