Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and ;brighten possibilities.
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
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