"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and……" — Jonathan Swift
"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift has 271 quotes on this site.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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More Complaint Quotes
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one of 188 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But,…
— Kirstie Alley
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
— Van Jones
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this…
— Susan Ward
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it.…
— Hugh Miller
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