Trouble Quotes: Weathering Life's Storms with Wisdom (Page 2)

"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases"

Caskie Stinnett

"The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections"

Fred Barnes, Journalist

"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

"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"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

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Friends show their love in times of trouble"

Euripides, Poet

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"It takes two to get one in trouble"

Mae West, Actress

"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so"

Will Rogers, Actor

"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds"

Will Durant, Historian

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal"

Jane Austen, Writer

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