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Complaints Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves…
- When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- 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…
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
- To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
More Complaints Quotes
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen
- He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr
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- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. — Josh Billings
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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. — Edmund Burke
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