If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

 —Sydney J. Harris

Anger is a bad counselor.

—French Proverb

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

—Seneca

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

 —Robert G. Ingersoll

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.

 —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

—Elizabeth I

Anger as soon as fed is dead — ‘Tis starving makes it fat.

—Emily Dickinson

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

—Cherie Carter-Scott

He who angers you conquers you.

—Elizabeth Kenny

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

 —Alexandre Dumas

It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that — but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy and it is not everyone who can do it.

 —Aristotle

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

—Chinese Proverb

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

 —Phyllis Diller

Get mad, then get over it.

 —Colin Powell

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 —Malachy McCourt