Anger

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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him." - Akhenaton

"Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy." - Aristotle

"When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of." - H. Jackson Brown Jr

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." - Cato the Elder

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - Elizabeth I, quoted by Francis Bacon in Apophthegms

"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." - Euripides, fragment

"A man is measured by the size of things that anger him." - Geof Greenleaf

"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred." - Thomas Jefferson

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)

"A soft answer turneth away wrath." - BIBLE, Proverbs 15:1

"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." - BIBLE, Ephesians 4:26

"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd.
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
- WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Mourning Bride

"Anger is a brief madness." - HORACE, Epistles

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825)

"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one." - GEORGE SAVILE, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

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