Anger Quotes - Page 6

• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  Joseph Joubert

  Hiking, Long Walks, Betrayed

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• All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

  Wilson Mizner

  Long, Scripture, Degrees

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• In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

  Pythagoras

  Speech, Action, Should

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• Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

  Matthew Prior

  Love, Heart, Tyrants

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• Anger is a momentary madness.

  Horace

  Madness, Momentary

  "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62,

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• Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Memorable

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• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Antidote

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Empathy, Silence

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• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

  Wayne Dyer

  Fear, Stress, Anxiety

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• No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

  Clifford Bax

  Outrage, Forty, Incredulity

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• When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Crazy, Men, Angry

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.85

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• My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

  Phyllis Diller

  Frustration, Kitchen, Down And

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• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

  John Dryden

  Buddhist, Long, Meditation

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Nature, Men, Beastly

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• Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

  Kathleen Dowling Singh

  Boundaries, Reactions, Violation

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• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Abuse, Betrayed, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

  Mario Puzo

  People, Advice, Reason

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• A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

  J. G. Holland

  Arsenic, Dignity, Fit

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• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Forgiveness, Attitude

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Couple, Silence

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• Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

  George William Curtis

  Mind, Mistress, Doe

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• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Wrath, Resentment

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

  Thomas Paine

  Teacher, Crazy, Philosophical

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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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