Complaints', in general usage, are expressions of displeasure.
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- Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining.
- Richard Graves, Olla Podrida 6 October 1787
- There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.
- I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
- Dwight L. Moody, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.
- I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
- Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) In the Street, Calais
- Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.
- , reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.
- From mad dogs and grumbling professors may we all be delivered, and may we never take the complaint from either of them.
- , reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 421.
- Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business. But those that are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.
- Robert West, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.
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