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“The French complain of everything, and always.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Maya Angelou
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks”
Randall Jarrell
“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
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed”
Thomas Fuller
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
Antoine Rivarol
“Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.”
Francois Fenelon
“My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.”
Dennis Prager
“I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe