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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for read more
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
 Alas! they had been friends in youth;
 But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in read more 
 Alas! they had been friends in youth;
 But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
    And to be wrothe with one we love
     Doth work like madness in the brain. 
When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.
When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.