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• We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Two, Needs

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• I have nothing to complain about.

  Wes Borland

  "Pop Quiz / Q & A With Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland". interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 18, 2001.

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• You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

  James MacArthur

  Actors, Tvs, Thanks

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• Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

  Michael Medved

  Weather, Television, Notes

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• I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

  Tobey Maguire

  Home, Waiting, Three

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• Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Games, Poachers, Stealing

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• We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Flipping A Coin, Coins

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace

  Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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• Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

  Timothy West

  Money, Fighting, Watches

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• If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

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• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Italian, People

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• Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

  George Crabbe

  Gains, Farming, Farmers

  'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273

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• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  Aaron Allston

  Smart, Stupid, Dumb

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• This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Satisfaction, Life Is, This Life

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.188

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• My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Effort, Foundation

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• No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

  Abigail Adams

  Hate, Shoes, Lows

  "The Quotable Abigail Adams".

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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Harm, Complaints

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Blame

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• One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Want, Breathe, Endure

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Made

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• Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

  John Kricfalusi

  Running, Humor, Cartoon

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• Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, What If, Fascination

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• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Political, Politics, Motive

  In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943

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• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Literature, Modern

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