The Habit of Grumbling

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 10.

The Habit of Grumbling

THERE is nothing in the world that hurts a man so much as the habit of grumbling. Some people are like snarling dogs that never see a stranger, whether he be friend or foe, without snapping at his heels. The good in life is never good enough, and the bad is always worse than it is. An old sinner once confessed on her knees that she had had a heap of trouble in her life and that most of it never happened. It is a good rule not to suffer from the toothache until the tooth begins to ache.—Sel.