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 to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
- Samuel Johnson

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There’s no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.
- David Mellor

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
- Davy Crockett

The world is sad enough without your woe.
- Orison Swett Marden

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, and the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
- William Morris

There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don’t have elevators.
- Jim Ferree

How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.
- W. H. Auden

A lot of the women I know, that’s what they’re complaining about – either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
- Marc Cherry

Sweat silently.  Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
- Martin H. Fischer

When you see somebody who’s got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they’re constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into – constantly horrified by the things people do.
- Daniel Clowes

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.
- Enoch Powell

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
- Samuel Johnson

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.
- Joe Walsh

The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man’s cane.
- Earl Musselman

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
- Grace Jones

Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.
- Lynn Johnston

The game has changed. What’s going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
- David Wells

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
- Zig Ziglar

Oh wouldn’t the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
- W.S. Gilbert

Don’t complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
- Author Unknown

On Tyrell Biggs’ complaining to him about low blows Low blows? Low blows? Huh! Motherfucker you’re fittin’ to die!
- Mike Tyson

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
- Lord Jeffrey

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
- Johnson

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

People that pay for things never complain.  It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
- Will Rogers

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
- Prince Philip

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
- Mason Cooley

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
- Mark Twain

It is the growling man who lives a dog’s life.
- Coleman Cox