Complaints Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complaints Happiness Inspirational Love Wretched
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. — Horace Copy Share Image
Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“If you believe that the world is conspiring against you, it will just do that.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
