Quotations about Complaining

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~Samuel Johnson


If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~Bernard M. Baruch


I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. ~Robert Hugh Benson


Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? ~W.S. Gilbert


I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner


Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones


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


Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ~William Osler


In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~Author Unknown


I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh


It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley


Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~Martin H. Fischer


The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell


Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol


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


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


Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb


To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~Author Unknown


The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank