Trouble Quotes - Page 19

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.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Best fishing in troubled waters.