Behavior

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

"A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger."

"Anger seeks its prey,— Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Likes not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will."

"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath."

"Craignez la colère de la colombe."

"Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke."

"Fœnum habet in cornu."

"Trahit ipse furoris Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem."

"Nemo me impune lacessit."

"Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus."

"Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora."

"Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise."

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

"Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees."

"Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Führer hört."

"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."

"Quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor."

"Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus."

"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."

"Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia."

"Furor arma ministrat."

"Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ."

"The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence."

"The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself."

"He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion."

"There was a man here last night — you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name — who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings."

"When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them."

"An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth."

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after."

"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."

"No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay."

"Anyone can become angry, that is easy...but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way... this is not easy."