Anger Quotes

Some Anger quotes and sayings that might help you fight your anger

“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
~Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.”
~Korean Proverb

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
~Confucius

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
~Horace Walpole

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
~Epictetus

“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
~Epictetus

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
~Malachy McCourt

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
~Maya Angelou

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
~ Gautama Buddha

“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”
~James Fallows

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
~Seneca

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
~ Plato

“One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
~William Butler Yeats

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
~Albert Einstein

Adversity Quotes

Here are some christian adversity quotes and sayings to inspire and motivate you..

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~M. Kathleen Casey

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no education like adversity.
~Disraeli

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~Garth Brooks

Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.
~Teddy Pendergrass

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

Adversity is the first path to truth.
~Lord Byron

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
~William Hazlitt

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
~Ever Garrison

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
~ Antoine de Saint-ExupÈry

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
~Russian Proverb

Is made more sacred by adversity.
~Charles Caleb Colton

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
~Bernard M. Baruch

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~Oscar Wilde

Bad is never good until worse happens.
~Danish Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
~Bernie Siegel

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
~William Stafford

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

Books Quotes and Sayings

Here are some sayings and quotes about book.

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~James Bryce

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
~Larry Hagman

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~Garrison Keillor

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
~Caroline Gordon

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
~Samuel Johnson

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
~Aldous Huxley

“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
~ George William Curtis

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
~P. L. Travers

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.’
~ Winston Churchill

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ”
~François Mauriac

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ”
~P.J. O’Rourke

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ”
~Chinese Proverb

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley

Easter Quotes

Some Easter quotes and sayings for easter greetings.

He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter
~Italian Proverb

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
~Bernhard Langer

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
~S.D. Gordon

The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.
~Carl Knudsen

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
~Martin Luther

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
~Charles M. Crowe

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
~ Bishop Robert South

A late Easter, a long cold spring.
~French Proverb

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
~St Augustine

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
~Charles M. Crowe

I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, “At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!”
~Edna Dean Procter

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
~Benjamin Franklin

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter, That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
~Bertran de Born

Christianity begins where religion ends…with the resurrection
~ Herbert Booth Smith

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?
~Rev. Frederick William Faber

Torture Quotes and Sayings

Quill is an implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
~Ambrose Bierce

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
~ James Anthony Froude

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
~John Calvin

“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.”
~Cameron Diaz

“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
~Alan Feldman

“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”
~ Luis Bunuel

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
~John Calvin

“Love is a reciprocal torture.”
~Marcel Proust

” Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
~Arthur Eddington

“I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
~Marquis De Sade

“If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water”
~ Bulgarian Proverb

“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
~Carl Jung

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
~Lord Byron

“Chess is mental torture.”
~Garry Kasparov

“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
~Heraclitus of Ephesus

Headlines

Quotes with the keyword headlines.

“God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don’t let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He’s still on the throne.”
~ Billy Graham

“Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.”
~Bill Walsh

“Headlines twice the size of the events.”
~ John Galsworthy

My God… What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don’t make the playoffs?
~Wade Boggs

“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”
~ Charles Kuralt

“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.”
~George W. Bush

Chinese Proverbs

Here are some Chinese Proverbs and Chinese Sayings.

“Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.”

“Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.”

“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy”

“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies”

“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.’

“Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.”

“It is the beautiful bird which gets caged”

“Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.”

“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.”

“He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.”

“A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.”

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”

“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”

“If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.”

“A smile will gain you ten more years of life.”

Some more Chinese proverbs

Book

Some quotes and sayings on Books.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
~Theodore Parker

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~Walter Pater

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps

A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate

I don’t go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
Ronald Biggs

More Book Quotes

Bible Quotes

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

In my Father’s house are many mansions.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. ~(Psalms 30:5)

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul (Psalm 143:8)

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Miserable comforters are ye all.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters.