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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Booth Tarkington

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Francis Quarles

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Terry Glavin

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Yoko Ono

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

Eva Mendes

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Jules Renard

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

Sarah Mlynowski

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Mary Kay Blakely

We boil at different degrees.

Clint Eastwood

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Grace Kelly

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

Elizabeth Esty

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

Thomas a Kempis

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Toni Morrison

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Edward Albert

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

Derren Brown

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

B. B. King

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Pythagoras

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

Sylvester Stallone

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Ang Lee

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dylan Thomas

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Louis Nizer

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred A. Montapert

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Wayne Dyer

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

Nancy Garden

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Douglas Horton

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

Fiona Apple

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

Richard M. Nixon

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

Elizabeth Esty

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Bede Jarrett

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

John Ruskin

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

Grace Slick

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Get mad, then get over it.

Colin Powell

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Ricky Williams

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Austin O'Malley

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Bob Marley

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Wayne Dyer

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Charles Simmons

Anger is a short madness.

Horace

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

James Thurber

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joseph Joubert

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Ford Frick

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Daniel Webster

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

John McAfee

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stephen Hawking

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon

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

Marcus Aurelius

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Jim Lehrer

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

Nadine Velazquez

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

William Butler Yeats

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

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

Pope Paul VI

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Saint Francis de Sales

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

James Fallows

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha