ANGERand PassionQUOTATIONS ♠©winnie
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy - but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
~ Aristotle
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
~ Henry Beecher
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
~ John Boyes
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
~ Charles de Gaulle
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
~ John Dryden
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Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
~ Lord Halifax
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
~ Walter Landor
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The worst-tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
~ Wilson Mizner
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When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
~ Mark Twain
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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
~ Unknown
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
~ Unknown
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~ Sydney J. Harris
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There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.~ Alexandre Dumas
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He who angers you conquers you.~ Elizabeth Kenny
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For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.~ Unknown
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Anger is one letter short of danger.~ Unknown
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.~ Will Rogers
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Never write a letter while you are angry.~ Chinese Proverb
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Get mad, then get over it.~ Colin Powell
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The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.~ Bede Jarrett
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.~ Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.~ Mark Twain
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.~ Malachy McCourt
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Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.
~ Emily Dickinson
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.~ Korean Proverb
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Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.~ Chinese Proverb
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.~ Albert Einstein
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.~ George Jean Nathan
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Anger is a short madness. ~Horace
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.~ George Eliot
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.~ Robert G. Ingersoll
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Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.~ James Fallows
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I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.~ Unknown
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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
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.~ Seneca
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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
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Never strike your wife - even with a flower.~ Hindu Proverb
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.~ Ambrose Bierce
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.~ Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
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Anger is a bad counselor.~ French Proverb
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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.~ Neil Kinnock
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To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.~ William H. Walton
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.~ Jacqueline Schiff
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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
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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
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We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.~ Benjamin Franklin
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.~ Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.~ John Wesley
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.~ Yves Saint Laurent
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.~ Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.~ Honoré de Balzac
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.~ Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.~ George Santayana
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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison Keillor
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I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.~ Terri Guillemets
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.~ Aldous Huxley
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