Trouble Quotes: Weathering Life's Storms with Wisdom

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain, Author

"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble"

James Grainger, Poet

"When trouble ends even troubles please"

Sophocles, Author

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas"

George Eliot, Author

"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness"

Helen Keller, Author

"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it"

Chaim Potok, Author

"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people"

E. B. White, Writer

"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off"

Abe Lemons, Coach

"Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

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

Sid Caesar, Actor

"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever"

Mary Ann Mobley, Actress

"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well"

Marcel Carne, Director

"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents"

Allan Sherman, Musician

"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Mark Twain, Author

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

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