Complaint Quotes and Sayings - Page 2



First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
ohann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
Samuel Johnson

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
George Granville

Tears and complaints – the means which I have called water power – can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Alfred Adler

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
Abraham Lincoln

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy’s Complaint is to read it twice.
Irving Howe

Most part of a lover’s life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares, full of silence and irksome solitariness
Robert Burton

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Bible

Then Job answered and said, Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Bible

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed.’ Take away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed,’ and the harm is taken away.
Marcus Aurelius

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
Hedy Lamarr

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

Untold suffering seldom is.
Franklin P. Jones

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.
Anonymous

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

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
Samuel Johnson

People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
Will Rogers

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.
Jerome K. Jerome

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn’t from Nashville, they didn’t like her winning our awards. I’ve got no complaints.
Loretta Lynn

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
Samuel Johnson

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.
Audre Lorde

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

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

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Bible

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
Tina Yothers

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
Robert Frost

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