A Quote by Agatha Christie

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
English - Writer
September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

T. S. Eliot

My bark is worse than my bite.

Wendy Williams

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.

John Ensign

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Randy Alcorn

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

Sigmund Freud

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Isaac Watts

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

Diogenes

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Leo Tolstoy

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Ambrose Bierce

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

Rick Warren

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

Dennis Lehane

Everybody knows I got a temper. It's not a temper temper-not an off-the-field temper. It's a competitive temper, wanting to do good. But as far as being a guy who disrupts a lot of things, who doesn't want to listen? Nah, man. That's false. That's false because I'm excelling.

Randy Moss

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