- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas
- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault
- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown
- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown
- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers
- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell
- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett
- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain
- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt
- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault
- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb
- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace
- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott
- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown
- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler
- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows
- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg
- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket
- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown
- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague
- “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
- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca
- “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
- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb
- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock
- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner
- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton
- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff
- “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
- “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
- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
- “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
- “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch
- “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita
- “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell
- “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann
- “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse
- “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault
- “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
- “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
- “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
- “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
- “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
- “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
- “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore
- “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide
- “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds
- “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker
- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
- “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman
- “Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.” – William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
- “Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
- “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
- “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.” – Unknown
- “Childhood is a promise that is never kept.” – Ken Hill
- “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.” – Katherine Anne Porter
- “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing
- “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.” – Robert Brault
- “The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.” – Christopher Morley, To a Child
- “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” – Tom Stoppard
- “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”
- “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.” – Tom Robbins
- “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” – Cynthia Ozick
- “The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.” – John Milton, Paradise Regained
- “Childhood is a short season.” – Helen Hayes
- “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” – Herbert Gold
- “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.” – Unknown
- “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.” – Ellen Glasgow
- “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.” – Malcolm de Chazal