Though Mr. (Samuel) Johnson was commonly affected even to agony at the thoughts of a friend’s dying, he troubled himself very little with the complaints they might make to him of ill health. “Dear Doctor (said he one day to a common acquaintance, who lamented the tender state of his inside), do not be like […]
Complain - Complaint Quotes
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 brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. (King Lear)
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
All say, how hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.
It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
