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I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.
I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.
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.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin read more
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as read more
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.