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Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell1937–2021
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 keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
- Fear
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778V
- Love
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
- Facts
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Of Anger.
Revenge⁠—the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!
Walter Scott1771–1832The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Vol. II, Ch. 6.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
- Forgiveness
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act I, scene 3, line 12.In context
- Fear
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HoratioIn context
- Emotion
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LearIn context
I will do such things,⁠—
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Nature
Anger’s my meat. I sup upon myself
And so shall starve with feeding.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Coriolanus (c. 1608), Act IV, Scene II, spoken by VolumniaIn context