Anger and Indignation

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog .

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.