Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Ralph to Milicent
“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIX: On Consolation to the Bereaved
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement.
Maxim 89.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
He is certainly a brother to wolves, and to pandas too, but he is father to dragons, not brother: they, like many gods and devils, are inventions of his.
“On the Underside of the Stone”, p. 177
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 13, Celebrity, p. 224
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Quoted in Independent.ie, "Sri Lanka defends rights record" http://www.independent.ie/world-news/sri-lanka-defends-rights-record-29754169.html, 14 November, 2013.
“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)