Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.''

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.