"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong" — Baltasar Gracian y Morales

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Beware the fury of a patient man!

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, volume 1

To be caught between a rock and a hard place

When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait

Baltasar Gracian y Morales Quote