Complaints And Complaining Quotes

"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."

"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives."

"When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away."

"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy."

"I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."

"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship"

"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him."

"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning."

"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean."

"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."

"We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force."

"Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!"

"The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced."

"Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it."

"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

"One chops the wood, the other does the grunting."

"He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate."

"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."

"It is the growling man who lives a dog's life."

"What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment."