1. Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
-W. R. Alger
2. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
-Francis Bacon
3. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
-Cato
4. Never answer a letter while you are angry.
-Chinese Proverb
5. When angry, count four;when very angry, swear.
-Samuel L. Clemens
(Mark Twain),
Pudd'nhead Wilson
6. Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury, like a women scorned.
-Congreve
7. Beware the fury of a patient man.
-Dryden, Absalom and
Achitophel
8. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
-Horace, Epistles
9. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
-Ingersoll
10. He that is slow to anger is better than mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit then he that taketh a city.
-Proverbs. XVI. 32
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