Trouble Quotes - Page 31

• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

  Ben Jonson

  Women, Character, One Woman

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Fame, Knows

  "A Celebridade". 1915.

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• When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Race, Color

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• The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

  Norman Cousins

  Self, Despair, Fulfilling

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• The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

  Stephen Leacock

  Book, Stories, World

  Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies (1981). “The Penguin Stephen Leacock”, Penguin ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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• Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

  Paul Harvey

  Hurt, Discipline, People

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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• There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

  Tom Robbins

  Insanity, Essentials, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.73, Bantam

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• No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

  Claude Monet

  Giving, Anxiety, Painting

  David Joel, Claude Monet (2002). “Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883”, Antique Collectors Club Limited

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• Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

  Claude Monet

  Mediocrity, Enough, Mediocre

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Want, Knows

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• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Song, Fall

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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  Freya Stark

  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.

  Tony Blair

  Hands, People, Perception

  "Dear Michael, I'm Tony Blair". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2006.

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• I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

  Anthony Holden

  Old Things, Messengers, Messages

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• I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

  Charles Bukowski

  Travel, Thinking, Enough

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

  John Clare

  Dream, Reading, Winter

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• The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Hands, Happiest Man

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2852, e-artnow

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• The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

  Glenn Gould

  Void, Doe, Forget

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

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

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Race, Vanishing, Intellect

  The Petrified Forest act 1 (1934)

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• Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Light, Shining

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• Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

  Vince Cable

  Mps, People, Vote

  "Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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• Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

  Elizabeth David

  Preparation, Good Food, Should

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• All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Needs, States

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

  Paul Lynde

  Men, My Best Friend, Looks

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