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98 quotesDon't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.
Enjoyment
H. Stanley Judd
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Judgment and Judges
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu
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A customer who complains is my best friend.
Customers
Stew Leonard
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Miracles
John Locke
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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Reason
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Critics and Criticism
Nellie Mcclung
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
Modesty
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Never excuse, never explain, never complain.
Complaints and Complaining
Motto
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A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Journalism and Journalists
Lord Northcliffe
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
Eyes
Alexander Pope
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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
Life and Living
Fred Propp Jr.
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Complaints and Complaining
Ernest Renan
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Life and Living
Antoine Rivarol
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Maturity
Jim Rohn
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A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Charm
Edgar Saltus
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He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Complaints and Complaining
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
Vow
William Shakespeare
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Heartbreak
George Bernard Shaw
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Intuition
Florence Scovel Shinn
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Oceans
Alexander Smith
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Acquaintance
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun