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Quotations about Complaining
All complaints about life today will be ignored unless they are submitted in the format of elegant haiku poetry. ~Dr. SunWolf, @wordwhispers, tweet, 2016, professorsunwolf.com
Shiftless persons find their chief happiness in complaining. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
There is no fortune so good, but you may find something to complain of. ~Publilius Syrus
Depend on it half the grumbling in the world is mere pretence. We are vastly more contented with our lot in life than we choose to have it believed. Notwithstanding we are such inveterate railers at Fate on account of all the mischief that happens to us, there are but few of even the most miserable-minded folks who would like to change places with any one else... ~Thomas Clark Henley, A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy. ~Samuel Johnson
It is foolish to complain of the misfortunes which have come to pass through your own fault. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
Sighs and groans are the language of faultfinders. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
One's life must seem extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
~W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida; Or, Castle Adamant, 1884
An inch of cooperation is worth a yard of complaints. ~William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist, 1968
God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache! ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
It hain't no use to grumble and complane;
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice.—
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain,
W'y, rain's my choice...
~James Whitcomb Riley, "Wet-Weather Talk," 1901
A conscientious pursuit of Plato's ideal perfection may teach you the three great lessons of life. You may learn to consume your own smoke. The atmosphere is darkened by the murmurings and whimperings of men and women over the non-essentials, the trifles that are inevitably incident to the hurly burly of the day's routine. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ~William Osler, M.D., "The Master-Word in Medicine," 1903 [The second lesson: We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happier. The third lesson: The law of the higher life is only fulfilled by love, i.e. charity.
Pursue no Sorrow; if you do,
It may turn back and live with you.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Complaining," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
Grumbling is born of conceit. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
I have my health, I have central air — in the hierarchy of pain and suffering, I really can't complain. I mean,
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