"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints……" — Samuel Johnson

"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."

— Samuel Johnson

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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…

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More Complaints Quotes

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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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making… — Scott Adams
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. — Josh Billings
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
I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had… — Elayne Boosler
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for… — Edmund Burke
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp… — Robert Burns
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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