Quotations and Poems

» “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.”
– Arthur Ashe

»  ”Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
– Jane Austen

»  ”It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
– Edmund Burke

»  ”Intelligence is nothing without delight.”
– Paul Claudel

»  ”It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
– Confucius

»  ”Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
– Confucius

»  ”Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.”
– Robert A. Cook

»  ”It is the growling man who lives a dog’s life.”
– Coleman Cox

»  ”What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?”
– Marquis De Custine

»  ”Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

»  ”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.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.”
– Francois F?Nelon

»  ”There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don’t have elevators.”
– Jim Ferree

»  ”Never complain. Never explain.”
– Henry Ford

»  ”Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”
– Benjamin Franklin

»  ”I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.”
– Benny Hill

»  ”The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
– Lou Holtz

»  ”What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.”
– Horace

»  ”I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

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

»  ”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.”
– Johnson

»  ”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.”
– Johnson

»  ”To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.”
– Johnson

»  ”Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.”
– Samuel Johnson

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

»  ”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.”
– Phil Lout

»  ”The world is sad enough without your woe.”
– Orison Swett Marden

»  ”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

»  ”Never excuse, never explain, never complain.”
– Motto

»  ”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.”
– Earl Musselman

»  ”One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.”
– Chinese Proverb

»  ”I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes — until I met a man who had no feet.”
– Jewish Proverb

»  ”He that falls by himself never cries.”
– Turkish Proverb

»  ”One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.”
– Yiddish Proverb

»  ”When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.”
– Ernest Renan

»  ”He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

»  ”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.”
– Julia Moss Seton

»  ”The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
– Henry Wheeler Shaw

»  ”Rich folks always talk hard times.”
– Lillian Smith

»  ”We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.”
– Laurence Sterne

»  ”Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.”
– Jonathan Swift

»  ”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.”
– Sir William Temple

»  ”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.”
– Mark Twain

»  ”Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
– Mark Twain

»  ”Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Don’t complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!”
– Source Unknown

»  ”The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”
– Jane Wagner

»  ”It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.”
– John Wagstaff

»  ”I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.”
– Joe Walsh