Trouble Quotes - Page 19

• You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Bears, Shoulders

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• The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

  Robert Breault

  People, Body, Privacy

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• The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

  Robert Breault

  Business, Thinking, People

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

  Josh Billings

  Hypocrisy, Bother, Folks

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Adversity, Men, Wind

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

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• Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;... We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Israel, Evil, Events

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• Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

  Angelina Jolie

  Littles, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

  Laozi

  Sight, Doors, Long

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moving, People, Pity

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.5, Grove Press

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• There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, World Love, Made

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• The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Individuality, Sacred, Social

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• When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Weed, Wife, My Favorite

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• There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

  Louis L'Amour

  War, Character, Hard Times

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Chancy”, p.57, Bantam

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• He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Vanity, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

  A. E. Housman

  Luck, Chance, Lad

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Avid, America, Fiction

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.110, Random House

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• No man is without his load of trouble.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Load

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• To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Hero, Men, Average

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Money, Men

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• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

  George Orwell

  Clarity, Imitation, Modern

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

  George Orwell

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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

  Ovid

  Routine, Habitual

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• Everybody's got their troubles.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.117, Penguin

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• How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Past, Remember

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