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| A hasty man never wants woe. | 1 |
| A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him. | 2 |
| A man is a stark fool all the while he is angry. | 3 |
| A state’s anger should not take knowledge either of fools or women. Ben Jonson. | 4 |
| An angry man cannot see right. German. | 5 |
| An angry man heeds no counsel. Portuguese. | 6 |
| An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publius Syrus. | 7 |
| An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Cato. | 8 |
| An irritable and passionate man is a downright drunkard. Spanish. | 9 |
| Anger and haste hinder good counsel. | 10 |
| Anger and love give bad counsel. | 11 |
| Anger assists hands however weak. Ovid. | 12 |
| Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance. Pythagoras. | 13 |
| Anger cannot stand without a strong hand. | 14 |
| Anger dieth quickly with a good man. | 15 |
| Anger edges valor. | 16 |
| Anger ends in cruelty. Tamil. | 17 |
| Anger first and pity afterwards. Tamil. | 18 |
| Anger increases love. Italian. | 19 |
| Anger is a short madness. Dutch. | 20 |
| Anger is a sworn enemy. | 21 |
| Anger is as useless as the waves of the ocean without wind. Chinese. | 22 |
| Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. | 23 |
| Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Fuller. | 24 |
| Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul. | 25 |
| Anger is to be avoided in inflicting punishment. Cicero. | 26 |
| Anger last of all becomes old. Modern Greek. | 27 |
| Anger makes a rich man hated and a poor man scorned. | 28 |
| Anger manages everything badly. Statius. | 29 |
| Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. | 30 |
| Anger occasioned by a trifle may extend to the sky before it ceases. | 31 |
| Anger punishes itself. Tamil. | 32 |
| Anger rendereth the man insane and the prophet dumb. Hebrew. | 33 |
| Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Bible. | 34 |
| Anger without power is folly. German. | 35 |
| Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire. | 36 |
| Be master of thy anger. Periander of Corinth. | 37 |
| Be not choleric, it will make you look old. | 38 |
| Dread the anger of the dove. | 39 |
| He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. Plato. | 40 |
| He looks as angry as if he were vexed. Irish. | 41 |
| He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. Chilo. | 42 |
| He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him. | 43 |
| He that is angry is seldom at ease. | 44 |
| He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends. | 45 |
| He who has been angry becomes cool again. Modern Greek. | 46 |
| He who overcomes his anger subdues his greatest enemy. Publius Syrus. | 47 |
| If you be angry you may turn the buckle of your girdle behind you. | 48 |
| Ruling one’s anger well is not so good as preventing it. | 49 |
| Striking and not making it felt is anger lost. | 50 |
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Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame,
Whate’er is begun in anger ends in shame. Franklin. | 51 |
| That anger is not warrantable that has seen two suns. | 52 |
| The anger of a good man is the hardest to bear. Publius Syrus. | 53 |
| The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is glory to overlook a transgression. Bible. | 54 |
| The pain of anger punishes the fault. Homer. | 55 |
| The physician of anger is reason. Modern Greek. | 56 |
| The sun should never set on our anger. | 57 |
| There is not in nature a thing that makes a man so deformed, so beastly, as intemperate anger. John Webster. | 58 |
| To be angry is to punish myself for another’s fault. | 59 |
Two things a man should never be angry at:
What he can help, and what he cannot help. | 60 |
| Two to one in all things against the angry man. | 61 |
| We all know that anger cannot look at anger without laughing. Buckminster. | 62 |
| When a man grows angry his reason rides out. | 63 |
| When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot mettled steed, it stumbles on its way. Savage. | 64 |
| When angry, count ten; when very angry, a hundred. Jefferson. | 65 |
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