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ANGER

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see: "PASSION"
see: "QUARRELS"
see: "RAGE"
see: "REVENGE"
see: "TEMPER"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


If men would consider not so much wherein they
differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far
less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the
world.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
Attributed in _Journal of the American Osteopathic Association_ [April 1906].

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a
passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive
than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
--Margery Louise Allingham (1904—1966)
British detective-story novelist.
_Death of a Ghost_ [1934]

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to
hurt as much as they do — or more. My grandmother
once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever
I could. It's sound advice.
--Walter Anderson (1885—1962)
German folklorist.
"The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment"

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.
--attributed to Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
Attributed in _Encyclopaedia Londinensis_, vol. XX [1825].

A man that does not know how to be angry
does not know how to be good.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
_Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1887]

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He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 16:32 NKJV


Do not make friends with a hot-tempered
man, do not associate with one easily
angered, or you may learn his ways and
get yourself ensnared.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 22:24-25 NIV

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I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
--William Blake (1757—1827)
English poet.
"A Poison Tree"

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.
--attributed to Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most
fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over
grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the
prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to
savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain
you are given and the pain you are giving back —
in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief
drawback is that what you are wolfing down is
yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
--Frederick Buechner (b. 1926)
American Presbyterian minister and author.
_Wishful Thinking_ [1971]

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness;
anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 13 [1882]


Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, —whether
raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,—is your
grandest of levellers. The man who would be always
superior should be always apathetic.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Devereux_, bk. II, ch. I [1829]

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal
your energy and keep you from love.
--attributed to Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (1925—1998)
American professor and author of inspirational books.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer
than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself
more than his victim.
--Charles Buxton (1822—1871)
English author.
_Notes of Thought_, p. 243 [1873]

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you
will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
--Chinese proverb.

A strong mind is one which does not lose
its balance even under the most violent
excitement.
--Karl von Clausewitz (1780—1831)
Prussian soldier and military theorist.
_On War_ [1832]

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us
from ourselves; and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when
we too passionately and eagerly defend it; [ . . . ] Neither will all men be disposed
to view our quarrels precisely in the same light that we do; and a man's blindness
to his own defects will ever increase, in proportion as he is angry with others, or
pleased with himself.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXL [1824 ed.]

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only
men of a certain income can indulge.
--George William Curtis (1824—1892)
American essayist, editor, and reformer.
_Prue and I_ [1856]

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of
this machine called Man! Oh the little that
unhinges it: poor creatures that we are!
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Chimes_, "Third Quarter" [1844]

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
--Phyllis Diller (b. 1917)
American comedian.
_Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints_ [1966]

Beware of the fury of a patient man.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681]

There is nothing more galling to angry people
than the coolness of those on whom they wish
to vent their spleen.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802—1870)
French novelist and dramatist.
_La Tulipe Noire_ (The Black Tulip), ch. XXVIII [1850]

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
--Tryon Edwards (1809—1894)
American theologian.
Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 21 [1908 ed.]

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We boil at different degrees.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Society and Solitude_ [1870] "Eloquence"


A man makes his inferiors his superiors by
heat. . . .Self-control is the rule.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Letters and Social Aims_ [1876]

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If you would not be of an angry temper, then, do not
feed the habit. Give it nothing to help it increase. Be
quiet at first and reckon the days in which you have
not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now
every other day; then every third and fourth day; and
if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a of
Thanksgiving to God. For habit is first weakened
and then entirely destroyed....
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_Discources And Enchiridion_

Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Protesilaus_, fragment 656

We live in an age of Wrath. It is to be found in the
terrorist, the kidnapper, the hijacker, the looter, and
in the clenched fist of the demonstrator. [...] When
we ask what is their justification, they hardly have to
give an answer, because our age finds it for them.
*They are angry.* That is apparently enough. We
justify their Wrath, so we justify their violence. If
someone thinks that he has cause to be angry, he
may act from his Anger as destructively as he sees
fit. In fact, we have come close to the point of giving
to Wrath an incontestable license to terrorize our
society, just as an angry man may terrorize his family,
but whereas we do not excuse the husband or the
father, we extend our sympathy and understanding
to the terrorist.
--Henry Fairlie (1924—1990)
British author.
_The Seven Deadly Sins Today_ [1978]

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
--Francis, St, de Sales (1567—1622)
French bishop.
_Introduction to the Devout Life_ [1609]

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Anger is never without a Reason,
but seldom with a good One.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1753]


Take this remark from *Richard* poor and lame,
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1734]

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Indira Gandhi (1917—1984)
Prime Minister of India [1966—1977] and [1980—1984].
She was assasinated by Sikh extremists.
In "N.Y. Times" [20 October 1971].

The best answer to anger is silence.
--German Proverb

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Lord Glasgow, having flung a waiter through the window
of his club, brusquely ordered, 'Put him on the bill.'
--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Food, Drink and Entertaining"

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Anger is never without an argument,
but seldom with a good one.
--George Savile, 1st Marquess Halifax (1633—1695)
English politician and essayist.
_Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections_ [1750]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry,
does that not indicate something about your size?
--attributed to Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
--attributed to George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
--Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881)
American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine."
Quoted in _The Literary News_ [February 1882].

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it
will control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_, I, 2, 62

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When angry count 10 before you speak.
If very angry 100.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Samuel Kercheval [12 July 1816].

& note:

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] ch. 10 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

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Anyone who angers you, conquers you.
--Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880—1952)
Australian bush nurse.
(As told to her by her mother.)

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality
and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense
of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe
the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to
confuse the true with the false and the false with the
true.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Strength to Love_ [1963]

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Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
British poet, essayist, and critic.

Landor's cook displeased his master one day
by serving an indifferent meal. Landor in a
passion threw him through an open window.
The cook landed awkwardly in the flower bed
below and broke a limb. Landor cried out,
'Good God, I forgot the violets!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Lord Nosh stood upon the hearthrug of the library.
Trained diplomat and statesman as he was, his
stern aristocratic face was upside down with fury.
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
_Nonsense Novels_ [1911] "Gertrude the Governess, or Simple Seventeen"


Lord Ronald said nothing. He flung himself from
the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode
off in all directions.
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
_Nonsense Novels_ [1911] "Gertrude the Governess, or Simple Seventeen"

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_Hyperion_, bk. IV, ch. 3 [1839]


If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we
should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_Driftwood_ [1857]

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything.
They just cry over their condition. But when they
get angry, they bring about a change.
--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
_Malcolm X Speaks_ [1965], ch. IX, "With Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer"

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Do unsavory armpits and bad breath make you angry?
What good will it do you? Given the mouth and
armpits the man has got, that condition is bound to
produce these odors. "After all, though, the fellow
is endowed with reason, and he is perfectly able to
understand what is offensive if he gives any thought
to it." Well and good: but you yourself are also
endowed with reason; so apply your reasonableness
to move him to a like reasonableness; expound,
admonish. If he pays attention, you will have worked
a cure, and there will be no need for passion; leave
that to actors and streetwalkers.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, Book V, Number 28


Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us
than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
--attributed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.


How much more grievous are the consequences
of anger than the causes of it.
--attributed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

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To be angry at people means that one considers their
acts to be important.
--Juan Matus
(Quoted in Carlos Castaneda's
_The Teachings of Don Juan_ [1968])

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on
his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Prejudices: First Series_ [1919]

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
In blackness of heart--that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
--Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (1837—1913)
American poet and journalist.
_Is it Worthwhile?_

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From the "Washington Post":

A man sawed off his hand at a Fairfax County butcher shop last night after
a dispute over his order, county police said. Police said the man was taken
to a hospital in serious condition after the 7 p.m. incident in a market in the
7000 block of Spring Garden Drive in the Franconia area. Police said that
they understood that the man had wanted goat and was given chicken.

--Reprinted in _New Yorker_ (mag.) [24 December 2007]

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It's my rule never to lose my temper
till it would be detrimental to keep
it.
--Sean O'Casey (1880—1964)
Irish dramatist and memorist.
"The Plough and the Stars" [1926]

Speak when you are angry--and you will make
the best speech you'll ever regret.
--Attributed to Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
and to Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914).

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure,
and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 251 [1882].

The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a
little mouldy. It moulds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark,
growing stronger and more interesting. The poor and the weak die
with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing
in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
--Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
American poet and novelist.
_Woman on the Edge of Time_ [1976]

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1727]

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
--Pythagoras (582—486 B.C.)
Ionian mathematician and philosopher.
Quoted in _The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
and Instruction_, vol. V, no. I [6 January 1844].

Anger dieth quickly with a good man.
--John Ray (1627—1705)
English naturalist and botanist.
_A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1678]

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
--attributed to Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves
badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
Quoted in Alan Wood _Bertrand Russell, The Passionate Sceptic_ [1957].

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86BC—35/34 BC)
Roman historian.
In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations..._, p. 148 [1893].

This trick consists in making your opponent angry; for when he is
angry he is incapable of judging aright, and perceiving where
his advantage lies. You can make him angry by doing him repeated
injustice, or practising some kind of chicanery, and being generally
insolent.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_The Art of Controversy_ VIII. tr. by T. Bailey Saunders [1896]

Little folk are soon angry.
--Scottish proverb

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_De ira_ (On anger)


A Physician is not angry at the Intemperance of a mad Patient;
nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a Man in a Fever: Just
so should a wise Man treat all Mankind, as a Physician does
his Patient; and looking upon them only as sick, and
extravagant....
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
In Marion Mills Miller _The Classics, Greek & Latin_ [1909].


He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than
thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_De ira_ (On anger), III

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I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_, IV, ii [1604—1605]


Out, you mad-headed ape!
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
As you are toss'd with.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
Lady Percy in _King Henry IV_, pt. I, act 2, sc. 3 [1597]


Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_, II, iii [1602—1604]

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Anger is a normal emotion if it is expressed when felt.
Then it is over with. If one keeps a lid on it, it develops
into resentment or hate. Sooner or later, resentment
and hate explode, destroying others, or they are held
in, destroying oneself.
--Bernie Siegel (b. 1932)
American physician and author.
_Love, Medicine & Miracles_ [1986]

Calling a spade a spade never made the spade
interesting yet. Take my advice, leave spades
alone.
--Dame Edith Sitwell (1887—1964)
British poet and critic.
Letter to Charles Henri Ford [23 August 1933].

Lefty Stackhouse, who played the pro tour
in the 1930s and early 1940s, would treat
various parts of his body as if they were
independent beings and apportion them
responsibility for his errors. One day Lefty
hit a bad hook and immediately concluded
that the trouble had been caused by his right
hand turning over on the shot. 'Take that!' he
shouted, as he slapped the hand violently
against a tree trunk. Stackhouse is the man
who once attempted to strangle his putter and
once after missing a short putt battered the
club against the radiator of his car. Ky Laffoon
(another golf pro) was known to have plunged
his putter into a lake and screamed, 'Drown
you son of a bitch, drown!'
--Art Spander and Mark Mulvoy
"The Golf Imperative,"
in _The Golf Book_ ed. Michael Bartlett [1980].

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to
fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and
so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
--Jeremy Taylor (1613—1667)
English Anglican clergyman and writer.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 23 [10th ed. 1884].

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you
wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself
as you wish to be.
--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_Imitation of Christ_, bk. I, ch. 16 [c.1420]

You do not get a man's most effective criticism
until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed
with some bitterness.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
Entry dated 15 March 1854 in his _Journal_ [1906].

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Paul Verlaine (1844—1896)
French poet.

Poet and painter F.A. Cazals, a friend of Verlaine,
arranged to meet the poet at a cafι, but was
unavoidably late. When he finally did arrive, he
was a trifle nervous, for Verlaine drunk was
unpreditable. A mutual friend met Cazals at the
door and warned him that Verlaine, hopelessly
drunk, was 'furious with you.' Cazals entered to
find Verlaine surrounded by his acolytes, but a
little less drunk than he had been described.
Cazals took courage: 'I hear that you were
abusing me just a few minutes ago.'

'Who told you that?' cried the furious Verlaine.

'Somebody you don't know,' replied Cazals
prudently.

'Somebody I don't know!' exclaimed Verlaine.
He began to weave his way through the
crowded cafι. 'I'm going outside, and the
first passerby I don't know, I'll--I'll-- *smash
his jaw*!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of
his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him
written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry
that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is
tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low
and dark understandings because they do not believe
what he does.
--Isaac Watts (1674—1748)
English hymn writer.
_The Improvement of the Mind_, ch. 1 [1741]

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He was in the frame of mind when he would have liked
to meet Joe Louis and pick a quarrel with him.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Uncle Dynamite_ [1948]


It is never difficult to distinguish between a
Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Blandings Castle and Elsewhere_ [1935]

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He is a fool who cannot be angry;
but he is a wise man who will not.
--variously attributed to Seneca, Lord
Greville, and English or Old Proverb.

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
--anon.

If you don't want anyone to get your goat,
don't let them know where you have it tied.
--anon.

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SQUASH HIM LIKE A TRUFFLE

This item was reported on NPR's "Car Talk"

Cecile Porc drove for eight miles with a cyclist spread-eagled across
her windscreen, refusing to stop because she thought he was a mugger.
Madame Porc, 83, hit the man at a crossroads near Valence [France],
catapulting him onto the bonnet where he clung for dear life. As she
accelerated to 70 miles an hour, she was shouting "Murderer, Murderer"
said the victim. He hammered on the windscreen and screamed "I'm a
cyclist" but she just turned on the windscreen wipers. She was
eventually stopped by a police roadblock but remained unrepentant.
"My only regret," she later declared, "is that I didn't drive into a wall
and squash him like a truffle."

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Better pissed off than on.

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Some other words for anger with the dates
they entered the American lexicon:

ornery - 1800
mad as a wet hen - 1821
riled up - 1825
fly off the handle - 1825
in a huff - 1830s
miffed - 1832
conniption fit - 1833
hopping mad - 1834
swear like a trooper -1839
blow one's stack - 1847
get into one's hair - 1880
hit the roof - 1882
get out on the wrong side of the bed - 1885
see red - 1897
get one's goat - 1904
mad as a rattler - 1908
hot under the collar - 1910
peeved - 1915
get under his skin - 1915
steamed up - 1923
fit to be tied - 1924
blow one's top - 1929
has a chip on his shoulder - 1934
boiling mad - 1937
blow one's fuse - 1945
mad as blazes - 1947
blow a gasket - 1953

--adapted from Peter Wood
_A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now_ [2006]

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choleric [KOL-uh-rik; kuh-LAIR-ik], adjective:
1. Easily irritated; inclined to anger; bad-tempered.
2. Angry; indicating or expressing anger; excited by anger.
Ex.: The expression in his face -- pinched, vengeful, and mean -- could
assign to a choleric temperament or a display of tactical emotion on
the part of a clever bully.
-- Lewis H. Lapham, "Notebook"
_Harper's_ [February 2001]

defenestrate [dee-FEN-uh-strayt], transitive verb:
To throw out of a window.

fulminate [FUL-muh-nayt], intransitive verb:
1. To issue or utter verbal attacks or censures authoritatively or menacingly.
2. To explode; to detonate.

glower [GLAU-uhr], intransitive verb:
1. To look or stare angrily or with a scowl.
2. An angry or scowling look or stare.

irascible [ih-RASS-uh-buhl], adjective:
Prone to anger; easily provoked to anger; hot-tempered.
Ex.: "The lawyer described his client as an irascible eighty-two-
year-old eccentric who alternated between spinning fascinating
tales about her past and cussing him out."
--Jack Olsen, _Hastened to the Grave_

tirade [TY-raid; tih-RAID], noun:
A long angry speech; a violent denunciation;
a prolonged outburst full of censure or abuse.


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