No one wants to delay their anger. But waiting is the best cure for it. Delay lets the first hot flash cool down. It gives the dark cloud in your mind time to clear — or at least thin out. Some of the things that drive you crazy will seem less serious after a while. Not even a day — sometimes just an hour. Some problems will disappear completely. Even if waiting doesn't help anything else, at least your response will look thoughtful instead of angry. If you want to understand what's really happening, give it time. You can't see clearly when you're all stirred up.
No one will postpone his anger: yet delay is the best remedy for it, because it allows its first glow to subside, and gives time for the cloud which darkens the mind either to disperse or at any rate to become less dense. Of these wrongs which drive you frantic, some will grow lighter after an interval, not of a day, but even of an hour: some will vanish altogether. Even if you gain nothing by your adjournment, still what you do after it will appear to be the result of mature deliberation, not of anger. If you want to find out the truth about anything, commit the task to time: nothing can be accurately discerned at a time of disturbance.