Trouble Quotes

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Bertolt Brecht

Diana, Princess of Wales

Jane Austen

William Ralph Inge

Agatha Christie

Johannes Kepler

Henry David Thoreau

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

William Ralph Inge

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler

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.

Agatha Christie

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

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

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!

Remark to editor William Alan White

Warren G. Harding

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouth they've been in.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act too impulsively without thinking. I am not advocating in the slightest that we become mutes with our voices stilled because of fear of criticism of what we might say. That is moral cowardice.

Margaret Chase Smith

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Henry Way Kendall

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

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

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

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

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Often attributed to Mark Twain

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.