Trouble Quotes
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That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' (Quote by - Jim Carrey)
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. (Quote by - Euripides)
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. (Quote by - Phil Knight)
I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. (Quote by - Old English Writing)
I was going nuts. We kept putting ourselves in trouble, making error after error. But who cares what I thought? We have won the World Cup. (Quote by - Clive Woodward)
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. (Quote by - Robert Nozick)
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character. (Quote by - Stefan Edberg)
Nothing lasts forever — not even your troubles. (Quote by - Arnold H Glasgow)
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss. (Quote by - Casey Stengel)
I've got to watch Match of the Day now. Trouble is, when I tell my mum I've scored she won't believe me! (Quote by - Gary Doherty)
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes. (Quote by - Henry J. Kaiser)
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. (Quote by - Chinua Achebe)
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles. (Quote by - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. (Quote by - Cicero)
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger (Quote by - Sophocles)
You said it; I didn't. I can't think of anything funny to say that would not get me in trouble. I am going to leave that one alone. (Quote by - Andy Roddick)
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Through danger safety comes -through trouble rest. (Quote by - John Marston)
I've been in trouble with the police a few times, but I don't know what it was for. (Quote by - Ian Wright)
The trouble is the BBC now is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn't have had that in the golden days (Quote by - Patrick Moore)
I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say. (Quote by - Frank Robinson)
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. (Quote by - Euripides)
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
Double, double, toil and trouble: Fire, burn, and cauldron, bubble. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. (Quote by - Gaylord Perry)
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. (Quote by - Seneca)
I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time. (Quote by - Matthew Perry)
When trouble comes, they come not in single spies but in batallions. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers. (Quote by - Jamie Cullum)
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. (Quote by - A E Housman)
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. (Quote by - Lady Holland)
We will only be in trouble if we listen to Jose too much (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Life is mainly froth and bubbleTwo things stand like stone - Kindness in another's trouble. Courage in your own. (Quote by - Adam Lindsay Gordon)
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. (Quote by - Rupert Brooke)
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. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking (Quote by - John Morley)
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)
I used to trouble about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
I was in trouble here, there and everywhere. I just got bored and where most kids sit outside in the front garden and play hopscotch, I decided to be a menace. I did anything just to eat. I did some crazy things. (Quote by - Jentina)
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Now are you going to save us a lot of time and trouble, Mr. Downes, and confess or are you going to be a burden on the tax payer? (Quote by - John Thaw)
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (Quote by - Edward W. Howe)
One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents (Quote by - Montaigne)
It is not failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. (Quote by - Confucius)
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble (Quote by - Frank Yerby)
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
I'm quite anxious about my book coming out. There's one picture in there I might get in trouble for... (Quote by - Pete Bennett)
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so. (Quote by - Artemus Ward)
What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. (Quote by - James Grainger)
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
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. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)
Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Quote by - Dennis Potter)
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Quote by - Bible)
The trouble with law is lawyers. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself. (Quote by - Saint Peter Of Alcantara)
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. (Quote by - Yakubu Gowon)
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! (Quote by - James Thurber)
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered (Quote by - Tony Blair)
The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. (Quote by - Tom Canterbury)
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP (Quote by - Vince Cable)
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. (Quote by - Bowyer Bell)
What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble. (Quote by - Ken Bates)
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. (Quote by - Charlton Heston)
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. (Quote by - Neil Gaiman)
I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble! (Quote by - Bob Marley)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble; Woman and care, and care and women, and women and care and trouble. (Quote by - Nathaniel Ward)
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. (Quote by - Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. (Quote by - Cicero)
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. (Quote by - St. Basil)
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. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble. (Quote by - Larry Summers)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed. (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing. (Quote by - Leslie Dixon)
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed (Quote by - Marcello Mastroianni)
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. (Quote by - Seneca)
In times of trouble or personal suffering remember that you always have the opportunity to make earnest request to God through your prayers for the strength you need to continue. (Quote by - Patrick Gordon)
He that seeks trouble always finds it. (Quote by - English proverb)
The trouble with me is tahte very match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court and myself (Quote by - Goran Ivanisevic)
Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur. (Quote by - Nixon Waterman)
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
If literature isn't worth everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. (Quote by - Jean Paul Sartre)
Trouble is to man what rust is to iron (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force (Quote by - Dorothy L Sayers)
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. (Quote by - Arlene Francis)
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. (Quote by - Ella Wilcox)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. (Quote by - Imogene Coca)
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. (Quote by - J B Priestley)
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush. (Quote by - Howard Dean)
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
The trouble is small, the fun is great. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. (Quote by - Maltbie D. Babcock)
Trouble shared is trouble halved. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are. (Quote by - Billy Joel)
Friends show their love in times of trouble. (Quote by - Euripides)
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love. (Quote by - Elizabeth David)
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling bad or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. (Quote by - Hank Aaron)
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. (Quote by - Emmylou Harris)
If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble (Quote by - Paul Lynde)
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. (Quote by - William Author Ward)
I have known a great many troubles,but most of them never happened. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
She has been seeing the doctors and she is having a lot of trouble hitting her backhand. (Quote by - Paul McNamee)
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
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. (Quote by - Dinah Shore)
Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day (Quote by - Bible)
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles (Quote by - William Feather)
