Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Interpretation
Expressing anger can lead to regrettable statements.
This quote highlights the impulsiveness of speaking in anger. When emotions run high, especially anger, individuals often articulate their thoughts in a way that they might later regret, as the intensity of their feelings can cloud judgment and lead to harsh or inappropriate words.
In practice
During a heated debate, someone could use this quote to remind others to think before they speak.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
The trouble is that you think you have time.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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