Screw Calm and Get Angry

by Andrews McMeel Publishing

In our current state of economic misery and political distrust, surely there is a limit to just how much keeping calm and carrying on one might be expected to undertake. You may very well find that getting frustrated and enraged might be the only way to get things changed around here.

To help you achieve a new state of mild motivation, Screw Calm and Get Angry brings together several centuries of embattled and embittered epithets. It would seem that across the world and across the centuries, there is plenty of evidence to suggest you're not alone in bemoaning the way the odds are stacked:

* On Politics: "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly,' meaning 'many,' and the word 'ticks,' meaning 'blood sucking parasites.'" --Larry Hardiman

* On Work: "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." --Robert Frost

* On Money: "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." --Katherine Whitehorn

* On Business: "Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world." --Andrew Young

* On War: "You can't say civilization don't advance...for in every war they kill you a new way." --Will Rogers

* On Life: "If you wake up and you're not in pain, you know you're dead." --Russian proverb

A parody of the famed Keep Calm and Carry On British motivational poster, and featuring the same successful format as our best-selling Keep Calm and Carry On book, Screw Calm and Get Angry is destined to be the motivational mantra for the realists of the world!

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Self Help

160 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14, 2010

About the author

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Reviews

[Esteban del Mal]

Politics

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce

Politicians

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make experiments on journalists and politicians. -- Henrik Ibsen

The Art of Politics

If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman

Democracy

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie. -- Gustave Flaubert

Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome

Stupidity

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

Money

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you to not have any. -- Katherine Whitehorn

Business

Business is a good game -- lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell

Banks

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. -- Robert W. Sarnoff

Debt

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -- Earl Wilson

Life

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. -- Christopher Isherwood

Civilization

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly, -- Bertrand Russell

Happiness

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. -- Jonathan Swift

Unhappiness

And yet to every bad there is a worse. -- Thomas Hardy

Deceit

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw

Hypocrisy

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. -- Samuel Butler

Morality

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- J.K. Galbraith

Rat Race

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. -- Quentin Crisp

Curmudgeon

Start off every day with a smile and get it over with. -- W.C. Fields

Anger

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain

Protest

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein

[Aaliyah.Kirkpatrick]

Very interesting?

[Rob Smith, Jr.]

I like mini-books. Especially the ones from the 1800s. There's been more a turn to such short statue books today. These today are small, short and work to collections of ideas or quotes. This is a quote book from a British perspective. most of the quotes are from those from over the pond. The selection is a solid one with quite a number I haven't seen before. Betrand Russell used to be everywhere just with quotes. Here he is many times.

It's small, a mite expensive for such a tiny lot - But worthwhile and worth carrying around or have it handy to reach for during a call with time to kill.

Bottom line: I recommend this book 8 out of ten points.

[Bryon Brandt]

I don't encourage Getting Angry.
But there are certainly lots of things we care about,
getting messed up enough, that getting worked up enough
about them, to try and improved the situation, would be a good thing.

So some really good quotes to help us see through the obfuscations often thrown at us, when rightfully trying to address a deteriorating situation.

[Cristi McCaffrey-Jackson]

Love platitudes

Love platitudes for they get me through the days, especially the trying times. Humorous and fun book to keep on hand.

[Lynn]

Quick read with plenty of great quotes.

[Carlye Krul]

My friend and I found this at a second hand bookstore and once we started flipping through it we knew we had to buy it

[Amanpreet]

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train." ------------Robert Lowell

This is the first quote of the book and my favorite. This book really made my day and i must say that it gave me a much needed break from the depressing day i have had today.

Most welcomed book on my bookshelf.
(In fact, i might as well keep it on the bedside table so i could read it everyday.)

[Stephanie]

A short fun book full of quotes such as "Under Democracy one party always devotes its cheif energies to tryong to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed and are right" H.L. Mencken. My all time favorite of them "MY PROBLEM LIES IN RECONCILING MY GROSS HABITS WITH MY NET INCOME" Errol Flynn

[Twelve22]

I recieved this as a gift for my birthday. Its an entertaining book full of quotes.

[Danielle]

meh

[Jack]

Good --- More funny but helpful quotes

[Danielle Siel-Butler]

meh

[Angela]

Funny quotes for the laugh needed during hard times.

[TJ]

Sometimes you need a book in your life that says it's okay to screw being calm and it's okay to get angry. This is that book.

[Anastasiaadamov]

Not nearly as good as: Shit happens so get over it or Now panic and freak out Had a few good ones though.

[Kris Anderson]

It's great and relatable!