Solomon, Seneca, Einstein, Churchill and many others came to the conclusion, it is best to "hold your horses" in anger. Here are some famous people's quotes and proverbs about anger.
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"One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city." - Solomon's Proverbs 16:32
"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry" - Winston Churchill
"The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense." - Solomon's Proverbs 19:11
"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." - Dr. Laurence J. Peter
"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
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." - Albert Einstein
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
"In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves." - Abraham J. Heschel
"When anger rises, think of the consequences." - Confucius quotes
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." - William Arthur
"Anger is only one letter short of danger" - Elanor Roosevelt
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin
"He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not"
"The angry people are those people who are most afraid" - Dr. Robert Anthony
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy." - Aristotle
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it" - Seneca
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius
"The best answer to anger is silence."
"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words" - Dr. Joyce Brothers
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" - Sydney J. Harri
"For the pressing of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressing of the nose bringeth forth blood; and the pressing of anger bringeth forth strife." - Proverbs 30:33
"There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen." - Alexandre Dumas
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Malachy McCourt
"Anger is short-lived madness." - Horace
"If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other." - Walter Anderson
"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry." - Lyman Abbott
"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them." - James Fallows
"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison." - Seneca
"Anger and folly walk cheek by sole." - Benjamin Franklin
"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong." - Wilson Mizner
"He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly." - Proverbs 14:29
"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." - Proverbs 15:1
"A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again." - Proverbs 19:19
"Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger." - Proverbs 21:19
"Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger." - Proverbs 22:24
"A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, and the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both." - Proverbs 27:3
"A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control." - Proverbs 29:11