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Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
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.
anger is a short time time madness...
anger is a short time time madness...
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he read more
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.