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Walter Anderson (top)
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


Unknown Author (top)
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
- Unknown Author
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Unknown Author
Anger is one letter short of danger.
- Unknown Author


Ambrose Bierce (top)
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce


Buddha (top)
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


Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (top)
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


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


Phyllis Diller (top)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller


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


Albert Einstein (top)
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein


George Eliot (top)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
- Benjamin Franklin


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


Elbert Hubbard (top)
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


Robert Greene Ingersoll (top)
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Greene Ingersoll


Bede Jarrett (top)
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
- Bede Jarrett


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
- Mignon McLaughlin


George Jean Nathan (top)
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Jean Nathan


Hindu Proverb (top)
Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
- Hindu Proverb


Chinese Proverb (top)
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
- Chinese Proverb


French Proverb (top)
Anger is a bad counselor.
- French Proverb


Chinese Proverb (top)
Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb


Will Rogers (top)
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- Will Rogers


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Mark Twain (top)
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain