Trouble Quotes

"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

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

R. L. Stine, Writer

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"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

"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

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

Georg Brandes, Critic

"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

"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

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

Ken Kesey, Author

"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

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

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"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

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

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant"

Lucretius, Poet

"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

"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

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

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"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

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it"

Terry Pratchett, Author

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

John Barrymore, Actor

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

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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

Paul Valery, Poet

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

John Barrymore, Actor

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

Christopher Morley, Author

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

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"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

"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

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"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

"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

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