"Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.“


-Edward Everett Hale

posted in anger


Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

-Edward Everett Hale

timeView Quote
"The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."

-Edward Everett Hale

successView Quote
"In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

-Edward Everett Hale

medicalView Quote
"The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."

-Edward Everett Hale

bestView Quote
"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote

More Quotes About anger

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."

-John Buchanan

angerView Quote
"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."

-Thylias Moss

angerView Quote
"As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex."

-Adam Sedgwick

angerView Quote
"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."

-Lord Halifax

angerView Quote
"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."

-Agnes Obel

angerView Quote
"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."

-Edmund S. Muskie

angerView Quote