How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had read more

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.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. read more

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.

No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]

No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]

Angry poor people are 'enraged.' Angry rich people are 'livid.'

Angry poor people are 'enraged.' Angry rich people are 'livid.'

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath die end.
I was angry read more

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

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will
control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: read more

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will
control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.]