Quotes
Quotes about Anger
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum, Una salus ambobus erit.]
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear.
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
I take to-day a wife, and my election Is led on in the conduct of my will-- My will enkindled my by mine and ears Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.
