Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. – Antoine Rivarol Category: Complaining
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. – Lord Jeffrey Category: Complaining
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 Category: Complaining
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. – Robert Hugh Benson Category: Complaining
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. – Clifton Fadiman, The American Treasury, 1455-1955, 1955 Category: Quotations
Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start. – Anonymous Category: Running