Trouble Quotes: Weathering Life's Storms with Wisdom

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"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

"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

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

Abe Lemons, Coach

"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 her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"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

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

Josh Billings, Comedian

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

George Eliot, 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

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

E. B. White, Writer

"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

"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

"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

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

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs"

John Dewey, Philosopher

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

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble"

Eddie Slovik, Soldier

"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 a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"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

"As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist