“Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.”

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Let every man look before he leaps.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Opportunities are where the complaints are.

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.