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