Famous Quotes

"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 on Anger

More quotes about Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

  Albert Einstein on Anger

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

  Maya Angelou on Anger

More quotes by Francis Quarles

• "Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."

• "Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor."

• "Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."

• "Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune."

• "Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived."