Anger is an acid that can do more harm
by Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
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Sayings by Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Anger Sayings
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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.
- The Buddha
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Anger is a Dagger Twisted into the Soul of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Anger is the fiery breath of the underworld.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger burns, resentment smolders.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Mirror for Love and Light,
but never for Anger or Fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
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