Careful Words

angry (adj.)

  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

New Testament: Ephesians iv. 26.

"Darest thou, Cassius, now

Leap in with me into this angry flood,

And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word,

Accoutred as I was, I plunged in

And bade him follow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,

But most chastises those whom most he likes.

John Pomfret (1667-1703): Verses to his Friend under Affliction.

But, children, you should never let

Such angry passions rise;

Your little hands were never made

To tear each other's eyes.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Divine Songs. Song xvi.

  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 sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.

Epictetus (Circa 60 a d): How the Semblances of Things are to be combated. Chap. xviii.

  As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Caesar, "Remember," said he, "Caesar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself."

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Roman Apophthegms. Caesar Augustus.