Anger(Related Subjects: Enemies)

• Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
• When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
• Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
• If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
• Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
• Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.- Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
• Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. - Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
• Never get angry. Never make a threat. - Reason with people. Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999),
• 'The Godfather' I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. - Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989