COMPLAINTS AND COMPLAINING

Quote: If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.

Author: Arthur Ashe 1943-1993, African-American Tennis Player


Quote: Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Author: Jane Austen 1775-1817, British Novelist


Quote: It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman


Quote: Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Author: Paul Claudel


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

Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher


Quote: It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher


Quote: Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Author: Robert A. Cook


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

Author: Coleman Cox


Quote: What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Author: Marquis De Custine 1790-1857, French Traveler, Author


Quote: Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo


Quote: 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.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist


Quote: Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Author: Francois FTNelon 1651-1715, French Writer


Quote: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.

Author: Jim Ferree


Quote: Never complain. Never explain.

Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company


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

Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat


Quote: I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist


Quote: Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Author: Benny Hill 1925-1992, British Comedian


Quote: The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach


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

Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet


Quote: I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author


Quote: The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Author: Lord Jeffrey


Quote: To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.

Author: Johnson


Quote: When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Author: Johnson


Quote: 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.

Author: Johnson


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

Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author


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

Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author


Quote: I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

Author: Phil Lout


Quote: The world is sad enough without your woe.

Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine


Quote: When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet


Quote: Never excuse, never explain, never complain.

Author: Motto


Quote: The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane.

Author: Earl Musselman


Quote: One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin


Quote: I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.

Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin


Quote: He that falls by himself never cries.

Author: Turkish Proverb Sayings of Turkish Origin


Quote: One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.

Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin


Quote: When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Author: Ernest Renan 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar


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

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian


Quote: We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and ;brighten possibilities.

Author: Julia Moss Seton


Quote: The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885, American Humorist


Quote: Rich folks always talk hard times.

Author: Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American Author


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

Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author


Quote: Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist


Quote: Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

Author: Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist


Quote: 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.

Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer


Quote: Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer


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

Author: Source Unknown


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

Author: Source Unknown


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

Author: Source Unknown


Quote: I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Author: Jane Wagner


Quote: It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.

Author: John Wagstaff


Quote: I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Author: Joe Walsh