Quotes
Quotes about Trouble
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. [Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui n'en que faire.]
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
The Widow and Her Little Maidens A widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v.7.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
