Complaining Quotes and Sayings

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can’t get through a 480 page magazine every month.
- James Daly

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Unknown Author

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn’t have anyone else to blame.
- Randy Newman

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.
- Author Unknown

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.
- Piers Brendon

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- Samuel Johnson

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
- Matthew Henry

Never excuse, never explain, never complain.
- Motto

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
- Kate Adie

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

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

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George C. Wallace

Include others. As Senator Pat Moynihan said, “Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, ‘Why wasn’t I consulted?
- Donald Rumsfeld

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- Ronald Firbank

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
- Thomas Fuller

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
- Rita Dove

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
- Jane Wagner

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
- Phil Lout

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