Anger is a bad counselor.

French Proverb

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

Mark Twain

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

Never strike your wife - even with a flower.

Hindu Proverb

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Armour

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Seneca

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Marcus Antonius

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Elbert Hubbard

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Jacqueline Schiff

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William H. Walton

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Neil Kinnock

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

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

Benjamin Franklin

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

James Fallows