Trouble Quotes

"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

"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be"

Paul Valery, Poet

"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man"

James Thurber, Comedian

"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"

James Thurber, Comedian

"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40"

James Thurber, Comedian

"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"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

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time"

John Barrymore, Actor

"Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble"

John Barrymore, Actor

"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble"

Britney Spears, Musician

"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble"

Epicurus, Philosopher

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble"

Earl Warren, Judge

"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock"

Christopher Morley, Author

"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"The trouble with records is that they're too short"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial"

Richard Armour, Poet

"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

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