Trouble Quotes:

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Belief, Trouble, Capacity

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

- A. E. Housman

topic: Humorous, Trouble, Ill

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

- A. E. Housman

topic: Luck, Chance, Trouble

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Reality, Internet, Trouble

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

- Adam Lindsay Gordon

source: Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

topic: Years, Forget, Trouble

I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Trouble, My Family, Psychotic

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

- Adele Faber

topic: Trouble, Turns

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

- Agnes Repplier

source: Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Choices, Want, Trouble, It Takes Time

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Grief, Bears, Trouble

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

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: God, Men, Trouble

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

- Al Capone

topic: Trouble, Prohibition, Made

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

- Alan Dundes

topic: Trouble, Moments, Enjoy

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

- Alan Turing

source: B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

topic: Mean, Trouble, Results, Funny Computer

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

- Alan Watts

topic: Thinking, Imagination, Trouble, Wishful Thinking

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Trouble, Polygraph, Reliance

Time trouble is blunder time.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Time, Chess, Trouble

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

- Alice Hegan Rice

source: Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky

topic: Fur, Trouble, Easy

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Thinking, Chance, Trouble

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

topic: Mind, Welcome, Trouble

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

source: Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

topic: Trouble

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

- Alice Walker

topic: Kids, Facts, Trouble

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Speak, Trouble, Concern

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Inspirational, Asking, Trouble

Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave

- Amit Abraham

topic: Guests, Trouble, Bothered

If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.

- Amy Dumas

topic: Wwe, Play, Trouble, Finding Someone

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Trouble

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

- Amy Neftzger

source: Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.311, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

topic: Real, Stories, Trouble

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.

- Amy Winehouse

source: Song: You Know I'm No Good, 2007

topic: Trouble

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Art, Way, Trouble, Modern Art

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: Trouble

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

- Andrew Dice Clay

source: "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Care, Trouble

When I get bored, I get into trouble.

- Angie Harmon

topic: Bored, Trouble

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

- Angus T. Jones

topic: Jobs, Kind, Trouble

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

- Ann Beattie

topic: Character, Trouble

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

- Anna Sewell

source: "Black Beauty".

topic: Home, Trouble

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

- Anne Frank

topic: Believe, Healing, Trouble

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Photography, Flower, Trouble

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

- Anne Monroe

topic: Sadness, Goes On, Trouble

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

- Annette Funicello

topic: Careers, Hardship, Trouble

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: Green, Trouble, Hornets

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

- Arlene Francis

source: Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

topic: Love Is, Self, Trouble

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

- Arlene Francis

topic: Real, Trouble, Bigs

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: Men, Married, Trouble

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Doe, Anticipation, Trouble

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Reading, Trouble, Hours

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

source: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1917). “The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero”

topic: Legacy, Biographies, Trouble, Early Life

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

- Augustus William Hare

topic: Pain, Effort, Trouble

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Motivational, Trying, Trouble

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: People, Strange, Trouble

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Trouble

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Talking, Way, Trouble

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

- B. B. Warfield

topic: Faith, Trouble, Providence

I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Able, Trouble, Behinds

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Stress, Trouble, Crisis

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Enemy, Trouble, Difficult

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

topic: Strong Women, Trouble, Feels, Being A Strong Woman

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Acceptance, Trouble, Mets, Empowering Women, Juggling

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

- Barry McGuigan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sadness, Boxing, Trouble

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

- Bayard Rustin

topic: Believe, Creative, Trouble, Dislocation

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Boys, Finding Love, Trouble

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Sexy, Mind, Trouble, His Smile, Patch Cipriano

The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Feelings, Trouble, Patches

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Promise, Trouble

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

- Ben Jonson

topic: Women, Character, Trouble, One Woman

...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...

- Berenice Abbott

topic: Art, Photographer, Trouble

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

topic: Individuality, Sacred, Trouble

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

- Bernard DeVoto

topic: Trouble, Reason, Refuse

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

- Berthold Auerbach

topic: Self Improvement, Progress, Trouble, Fulfillment And Happiness

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Vanity, Wish, Trouble

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

- Betty Hutton

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Want, Trouble, Many Friends

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

- Betty MacDonald

topic: Darkness, Faces, Trouble

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

- Betty Smith

topic: Self, Too Much, Trouble

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

- Betty White

source: Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.14, Penguin

topic: Sense Of Humor, Trouble

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

- Bill Cosby

topic: People, Trouble, Mess

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

- Bill Joy

topic: Mistake, Trouble, Spelling, Spelling Mistakes

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Games, Trouble, Referee, Sports Football

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

- Billy Collins

source: Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

topic: Writing, Trouble, Poetry Is

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

- Billy Graham

topic: Affliction, Trouble, Reason

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

- Billy Joel

topic: Way, Good Times, Trouble, Good Times Bad Times, Times Of Trouble

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Real, Winning, Trouble, Being Wrong

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Able, Modern Life, Trouble

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Literature, Trouble, Deals

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

- Bobby McFerrin

source: Song: Don't Worry Be Happy

topic: Positive Thinking, Worry, Trouble, Don't Worry Be Happy

The trouble is that we do not know whether it has delivered better outcomes or not in services. After more than a decade, the time is right now to carry out a study like this and see if devolution is delivering where it counts.

- Brian Donohoe

topic: Outcomes, Study, Trouble, Devolution

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

- Brian Friel

source: Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in Conversation”, p.227, University of Michigan Press

topic: Real, Irritation, Trouble

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

- Brian Molko

topic: People, Mouths, Trouble, Lager

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Thinking, Firsts, Trouble

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

- Broderick Crawford

topic: Trouble, Priests, Mass

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Mind, Trouble, Tranquility

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

- Bruce Cockburn

topic: Normal, Trouble

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Trouble, Easily Offended, Offended

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Confidence, Trouble

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

- Bum Phillips

topic: Sports, Assumption, Trouble, Turds

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

- Busta Rhymes

source: "Busta Rhymes Sentenced to 3 Years Probation in Ex-Driver, Fan Assault". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2008.

topic: Trouble

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Brother, Feminist, Trouble, Homicidal

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

- Cardinal Richelieu

source: "The Catholic Encyclopedia". Book edited by Charles George Herbermann, 1913.

topic: Trouble, Luther, States

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

- Carl Webb

topic: Banking, Trouble, Reason

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.

- Carol Gilligan

source: Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “IN A DIFFERENT VOICE”, p.6, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Stories, Trouble, Adam And Eve

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

- Carol Kendall

topic: Looks, Trouble

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Long, People, Trouble, Lonesome

I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

- Cary Grant

source: "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine, January 4, 1958.

topic: Heart, Trouble, Amusing

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

- Cat Deeley

topic: Tvs, Kind, Trouble, Live Tv

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

- Cat Deeley

topic: Trying, Care, Trouble

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Reality, Trouble, Prostitution

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Father, Obsession, Trouble

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

- Celeste Holm

topic: Pain, Armor, Trouble

The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

- Celia Fremlin

source: Celia Fremlin (2014). “The Spider-Orchid”, p.42, Faber & Faber

topic: Love You, Cutting, Trouble

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

- Chad Everett

topic: Trouble, My Family, Bigs

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

- Chaim Potok

topic: Giving, Trouble

[A kitten] gets himself into every kind of trouble...

- Champfleury

topic: Cat, Kind, Trouble

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Kids, Littles, Trouble

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Trouble, Mask, Never Change

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Advice, Want, Trouble

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Powerful, Trouble

The price of progress is trouble.

- Charles Kettering

source: Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

topic: Progress, Trouble

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

- Charles Osgood

topic: Baby, Wonderful, Trouble, Infancy Is, Inspirational Baby

I went looking for trouble, and I found it.

- Charles Ponzi

topic: Trouble, Found

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Trials, Trouble, Spades, Great Hearts

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: World, Trouble, Despise, Rainforest, Wicked World

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

- Charlton Heston

topic: Art, Business, Trouble

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

- Chico Xavier

topic: Compassion, Trouble, Prisoner

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Trouble, Bloodshed

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Men, Trouble

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

- Chris Cleave

topic: Men, Want, Trouble

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Anticipation, Trouble

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Men, Trouble, Earnest

If anyone ever saw me dance, they'd have trouble taking me seriously.

- Christina Ricci

topic: Saws, Trouble

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Names, Speech, Trouble, Contention

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

- Christopher Walken

topic: Reading, Scripts, Trouble, Imagining Things

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

- Chuck Close

topic: Answers, Trouble, Come Up

Never wait for trouble.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Waiting, Trouble

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Joy, Youth, Trouble

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

topic: Mediocrity, Trouble, Enough

Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

- Clay Walker

source: Song: Bury The Shovel, Album: Hypnotize the Moon, 1995

topic: Baby, Too Much, Trouble, Shovels

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

- Clifford Irving

topic: Inmates, Trouble, Wardens

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

- Clive Owen

topic: Different, World, Trouble, Belfast

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

- Confucius

topic: Trouble, Plans, Foresight, Doorstep

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Singing, Done, Trouble

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Trouble

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

- Courteney Cox

topic: Kids, People, Trouble

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

- Courtney Love

topic: Mediocrity, Trouble, Heels

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

- Courtney Thorne Smith

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stories, Trouble, Autobiography, Nutritionist

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

- Craig David

source: Song: Walking Away, Album: Born To Do It

topic: Walking Away, Trouble, Walking

things never seem as bad as they are.

- Craig L. Rice

topic: Trouble

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Trouble, Good Sports

The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Advice, Trouble, Plans

Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

- D. J. MacHale

topic: Looks, Matter, Trouble, Only Thing That Matters

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Ignorance, Trouble, Inaction

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

- Daniel Defoe

source: 'The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' (1719)

topic: Trouble

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

- Daniel Johnston

topic: United States, Trouble, States

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

- Dashiell Hammett

source: Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Mind, Trouble, Falcon, Film Noir, Sam Spade

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

- Dashiell Hammett

topic: Three, Agents, Trouble

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

- Dave Matthews

topic: Time, Trouble, Speeding

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

- David Boreanaz

topic: School, Trouble, Clowning

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

- David Byrne

topic: Trouble, Practicality

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

- David Goodis

source: David Goodis (2012). “Nightfall: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.9, Library of America

topic: People, Trouble

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

- David Lloyd George

topic: Change, Vacation, Trouble

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

- David O. Selznick

topic: Causes, Trouble, Accurate

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

- David Ruffin

topic: Hands, Trouble, Should

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

- David Tang

topic: Trouble

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

- Deb Caletti

topic: People, Forever, Trouble

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

- Decimius Magnus Ausonius

source: "Ausonius: Books I-XVII". Book by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Paulinus (of Pella.), transl. by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White, p. 165, 1919.

topic: Men, Age, Trouble, Stages Of Life

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

- Dennis Hopper

topic: World, Trouble

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

- Dennis Potter

topic: Mouths, Trouble

When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.

- Dennis Skinner

topic: Boys, Class, Trouble, Posh

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Purpose, Bypass, Trouble

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Too Much, Trouble

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

- Diana Gabaldon

source: Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.996, Delacorte Press

topic: Done, Trouble, Moments, Claire Fraser

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

- Diane Setterfield

topic: People, Looks, Trouble

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Writing, Want, Trouble, Memos

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

- Dick Gregory

source: Interview with Walford Guillaume, thesource.com. January 16, 2012.

topic: Judging, Spirit, Trouble

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

- Diego Corrales

topic: Dad, Boxing, Trouble, Great Escape

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Comfort, Trouble

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Passionate, Trouble

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

- Don Herold

topic: Worry, Trouble, Imaginary, Overcoming Worry, Spinach

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

- Don Herold

topic: Listening, Jazz, Trouble

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

- Donald Glover

topic: Dad, Dark, Trouble, American Dad

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

- Donald M. Fraser

topic: Trouble, Filled, Filled Up

Who expects trouble gets trouble.

- Donnie Burns

topic: Dance, Trouble

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

- Dorothea Dix

topic: Each Day, Tomorrow, Trouble, Live Each Day, Anxiety And Worry

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

- Dorothy Dix

topic: Bears, Trouble, Harder

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

- Doug Larson

topic: Graduation, Graduates, Trouble, Grad, Cool Graduation

The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.

- Doug Sanders

topic: Golf, Lasts, Trouble

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Taste, Docks, Trouble, Seafood

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Grumbling, Trouble, Deserve

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Baby, Nursing, Trouble

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Mind, Trouble

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

- E. W. Howe

topic: Simple, Way, Trouble

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

- Earl Campbell

topic: Mom, Kids, Trouble

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

- Eckhard Pfeiffer

topic: Computer, Trouble, Company

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

- Eddie Bracken

topic: Hollywood, Awful, Trouble

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

- Eddie Slovik

topic: Thinking, Trouble

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

- Eddie Van Halen

source: "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

topic: Trouble, Streets, Music Education, Passion For Music

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

- Edith Pattou

source: Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Doors, Trouble, Wild Things

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

- Edith Stein

source: Edith Stein (2016). “Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”, p.283, ICS Publications

topic: Trouble, Crosses

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

topic: Half, Life Is, Trouble, Troubles In Life

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

- Edmund Gosse

source: Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

topic: Littles, Might, Trouble

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

- Edmund Vance Cooke

source: Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

topic: Hurt, Facts, Trouble

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Dad, History, Trouble