Complaining Quotes and Sayings

Complaining Quotes

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

One's life must seem extremely flat

With nothing whatever to grumble at!

~W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida; Or, Castle Adamant, 1884

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

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.  ~Og Mandino

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