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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith (February 21, 1825); reported in Paul L. Ford, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson vol. 10 (1899), p. 341.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
When angry count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 10.
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person don’t be surprised if they learn their lesson.
Will Rogers1879–1935
I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.
NBNachman of Bratslav
A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.
GGGeof Greenleaf
An angry man is unfit to pray.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Prayer
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Of Anger.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
FCFrank Moore Colby1865–1925
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Palm Sunday (1981), The People One Knows
- Reading
Anger as soon as fed is dead. ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Mine Enemy is growing old (B)
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
FCFrank Moore Colby1865–1925
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus55–120Agricola (98), Chapter 42; reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963)
- Love
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (15 September 1920), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21 (electronic edition), p. 252.