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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Anger

Anger in our mirth is like poison in a perfume.
—Joseph Addison

Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time.
—Anonymous

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

Watch against anger; neither speak of it nor act in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconvenience.
—William Penn

Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereon it falls.
—Seneca

Anger is like a full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him.
—William Shakespeare

Angry as a waspe.
—John Skelton