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

"Friends show their love in times of trouble"

Euripides, Poet

"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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

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

Bob Hope, Comedian

"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

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

Jane Austen, Writer

"Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"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

"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

"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular"

John Morley, Statesman

"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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

Will Durant, Historian

"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths"

Ken Kesey, Author

"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

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