Quotes with complain

  • Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
  • Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
  • Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
  • Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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  • Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Henry Ford Never complain. Never explain.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Isaac Watts 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Billie Burke But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Joan Didion Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Confucius Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • H. Stanley Judd Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • David Mitchell Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
    Ghostwritten (2017) 350
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31)
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Aaron Allston I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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