Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as read more

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

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

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

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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.]

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.

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.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at read more

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.