Complaint
Quote on Complaint
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare,
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
It is a folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying “The trouble with this country is …
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
When I meet a man whose name I can’t remember, I give myself two minutes, then if it is a hopeless case I always say “And how is the old complaint?”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
