Trouble Quotes

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
-Mark Twain

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."
-Ann Landers

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."
-Natalie Clifford Barney

"I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are."
-Billy Joel

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
-Sid Caesar

"The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work."
-Herbert Prochnow

"The trouble is that too often there is forty horsepower under the bonnet and one asspower at the wheel."
-John Macnaughton

"The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish."
-Marianne Moore

"The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical."
-Ruth Benedict

"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."
-Ben Lindsey

"The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for."
-Laura Ingalls Wilder

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
-Thomas Paine

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."
-Henry David Thoreau

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
-Carl Jung

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
-George Bernard Shaw

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any."
-John F. Kennedy

"If you ever have trouble sounding condescending, ask a UNIX user to show you how it's done."
-Scott Adams

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
-Charles De Secondat

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
-William Shakespeare

"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing -- and then they marry him."
-M. C. Escher

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
-Wilma Rudolph

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
-Ann Landers

"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."
-Scott Westerfeld

"The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason,that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents."
-Michel de Montaigne