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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Complaints

WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

4.9 · 29 votes · 158 reads

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

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

3.1 · 47 votes

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

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

4.6 · 42 votes · 139 reads

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

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PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

4.0 · 49 votes

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

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

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Friedrich Schiller

PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

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

4.6 · 32 votes

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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.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

3.5 · 20 votes

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

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PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

3.7 · 58 votes

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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
4.8 · 6 votes · 17 reads
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Never complain. Never explain.
Henry Ford
BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century
3.8 · 11 votes · 16 reads
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.1 · 34 votes · 61 reads
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One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Chinese proverb
Chinese
3.5 · 17 votes · 85 reads
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Anonymous
3.0 · 49 votes · 12 reads
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.3 · 17 votes · 145 reads
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The world is sad enough without your woe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.4 · 27 votes · 85 reads
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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,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.3 · 45 votes · 139 reads
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Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
Anonymous
4.6 · 34 votes · 160 reads
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century
3.8 · 32 votes · 99 reads
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Laurence Sterne
WriterBritish1713 · 18th century
4.8 · 15 votes · 100 reads
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.1 · 26 votes · 128 reads
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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
PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century
3.0 · 16 votes · 152 reads
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