Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Gold like the sun which melts wax but hardens clay expands great souls.

Of every ten persons who talk about you nine will say something bad and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting off a little water.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.