Samuel Johnson Complaining Quotations

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

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