Great Throughts Treasury

"When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain." - Sappho NULL

"The aim that comedy has in view is the same as that of the highest destiny of man, and this consists in liberating himself from the influence of violent passions, and taking a calm and lucid survey of all that surrounds him, and also of his own being, and of seeing everywhere occurrence rather than fate or hazard, and ultimately rather smiling at the absurdities than shedding tears and feeling anger at sight of the wickedness of man." - Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

"Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces." -

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." -

"Hesitation is the best cure for anger. Seek this concession from anger right away, not to gain its pardon, but that it may evidence some discrimination. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. Do not try to destroy it immediately. Attacked piecemeal, it will be entirely overcome." -

"If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it." -

"He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity." -

"Anger manages everything badly." - Stadius or Statius NULL

"Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else." - Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

"If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved. side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness." -

"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous." - Jeremy Taylor

"Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue." -

"Envy deserves pity more than anger for it hurts nobody so much as itself. It is a distemper rather than a vice: for nobody would feel envy if he could help it. Whoever envies another, secretly allows that person's superiority." - Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford

"Nothing presents a more mournful aspect than a family divided by anger and animosity." - Heinrich Zachokke, fully Johann Heinrich Daniel Zachokke

"Anger, 'tis said, is the last thing to grow old." - Alcaeus NULL

"Envy and anger shorten life." - Apocrypha NULL

"Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

"The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness. Never both be angry at once. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire. Let each; one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly. Never taunt with a past mistake. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another. Never allow a request to be repeated. Never make a remark at the expense of each other, it is a meanness. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence. Never meet without a loving welcome. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness. Never forget the happy hours of early love. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing alone can make it what it should ever be. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home." -

"Wine is like anger, for it makes us strong, blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong; the strength is quickly lost; we feel the error long." -

"He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow." - Tyron Edwards

"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better." - Tyron Edwards

"Anger would break the whole world to pieces if it could." -

"A temperate anger has virtue in it." - Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

"Whether a prophet is true or false does not depend upon the correctness of his predictions. It depends upon the purity and sincerity of his concern for the things threatened by human sin and divine anger. Indeed his predictions are the more likely to be correct, the less he is a true prophet and the more affinities he has within himself to the destructive tendencies of his age." - Erich Heller

"Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age." -

"Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent." - Johann Kaspar Lavater

"In love, anger is always false." - Publius Syrus

"Time is the greatest remedy for anger." -

"War mends but few, and spoils multitudes; it legitimates rapine and authorizes murder; and these crimes must be ministered to by their lesser relatives, by covetousness and anger and pride and revenge, and heats of blood, and wilder liberty, and all the evil that can be supposed to come from or run to such cursed causes of mischief." - Jeremy Taylor

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." -

"Anger is the foundation of every evil." - Muhammad Hussan Askari

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

"There is a holy anger, excited by zeal, which moves us to reprove with warmth those whom our mildness failed to correct." - Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, fully Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle or John Baptist de La Salle NULL

"Let a man overcome anger by kindness, evil by good... Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy... Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love." -

"As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children." - John Climacus, fully Saint John Climacus, aka John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites

"Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one’s anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others." -

"If you rest in the stillness like a broken gong, you have already reached heaven, for anger has left you." - Dhammapada NULL

"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." -

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - Elizabeth I NULL

"A smile is an investment. It costs nothing in money, time, or effort, effects your whole body. It disarms suspicion, melts away fear and anger, and brings forth the best in the other person." - Emmet Fox

"Anger is really but fear in disguise. Love is always creative, and fear is always destructive." - Emmet Fox

"Anger is never without a Reason." - Benjamin Franklin

"The strong, manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one’s inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, love, fear, grief, and hate; and if a man does not give way to these, he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience." - Tokugawa Ieyasu

"The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed." - Dalai Lama, born Tenzin Gyatso NULL

"Requite anger with virtue." - Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

"Against an angry man let him not in return show anger, let him bless when he is cursed." - Laws of Manu, aka Manusmṛti, Manusmriti, Manusmruti or Mānava-Dharmaśāstra NULL

"Humility is the most excellent natural cure for anger in the world, for he, that by daily considering his own infirmities and failings, makes the error of his servant or neighbor to be his own case, and remembers that he daily needs God’s pardon and his brother’s charity, will not be apt to rage at the levities, or misfortunes, or indiscretions of another." - Jeremy Taylor

"Self is the one invincible foe when acting with the four cardinal passions: anger, pride, deceitfulness, and greed." - Uttaradhyayana Sutra

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems not people; to focus your energies on answers not excuses." -