Trouble Quotes

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

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.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

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

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Move to your heart, Breathe.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply - slowly -
fill your lungs with love and gratitude -
exhale each and every trouble -
again and again - gratitude in, troubles out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win,
you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you
can never repeat the same experience.
- Michael Palin

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible
in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations
because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom;
and he that increaseth his riches,
increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure,
and trouble findeth it not.
- Akhenaton

All marriages are happy.
It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
- Raymond Hull

Birds are indicators of the environment.
If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Roger Tory Peterson

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
- Ogden Nash

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health
of the body is that it is so difficult to do without
destroying the health of the mind.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble,
delegate; when in charge, ponder.
- James H. Boren

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
- Guy Lafleur

You don't help people in your poems.
I've been trying to help people all my life -
that's my trouble.
- Charles Olson

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders
and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
- Ben Lindsey

Every government is a parliament of whores.
The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
- P. J. O'Rourke

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

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery

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.
- Edward W. Howe

I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify
the trouble we take to have sex.
- Daniel S. Greenberg

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.
- Clarence Darrow

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

Dad, I'm in some trouble.
There's been an accident and you're going to hear all
sorts of things about me from now on.
Terrible things.
- Edward Kennedy

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble,
but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me.
If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
- Brian Molko

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time
and causes the most amount of trouble.
- John Barrymore

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
- Daniel Defoe

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done,
is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation.
I was really tired of talking heads.
- Lawrence Kasdan

I do have trouble with titles.
- Jim Harrison

The trouble with people is not that they don't know
but that they know so much that ain't so.
- Josh Billings

The destructive character lives from the feeling,
not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- Walter Benjamin

I like to write about things about which I have no answers,
questions that trouble me.
These things trouble me.
- Paul Haggis

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble,
but we do know it is our sacred duty.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Olivier was another case of a genius,
who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this,
because for him it came so easily.
- James Lipton

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
- George Wald

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
- T. S. Eliot

When trouble ends even troubles please.
- Sophocles

The trouble with the profit system has always been
that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
- E. B. White

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books,
which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
- Jonathan Coe

There are two insults no human being will endure:
that he has no sense of humor,
and that he has never known trouble.
- Sinclair Lewis

I have been a believer in the magic of language since,
at a very early age, I discovered that some words got
me into trouble and others got me out.
- Katherine Dunn

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.
- Imogene Coca

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives
no one a chance to kill the right people.
- Ezra Pound

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world.
It's the things people know that ain't so.
- Edwin Armstrong

The trouble with words is that you never know whose
mouths they have been in.
- Dennis Potter

If you don't have trouble paying the rent,
you have trouble doing something else;
one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
- Robert Rauschenberg

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

When it was over, it was not really over,
and that was the trouble.
- Frank Yerby

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

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter.
First you have to find one.
- Pat Sajak

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything,
especially writing songs.
- Marian McPartland

I became chairman of the inmates committee.
Got into a lot of trouble.
Was accused of fomenting a riot.
Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
- Clifford Irving

If people are going to be cooking the books,
you're in trouble.
- Don Nickles

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting.
Maybe now, it would work better.
- Alain Resnais

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
- Edgar Watson Howe

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably
reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
- Sid Caesar

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly,
without the enormous trouble those of us who are older
had when we studied art history many years ago.
- Robert Nelson

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