It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.
Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
Never complain. Never explain.
Never excuse, never explain, never complain.
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Rich folks always talk hard times.
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
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.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
The world is sad enough without your woe.
There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.
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