300 Quotes on Trouble

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

  Author: Anzia Yezierska

• When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

  Author: Frank Yerby

• Never wait for trouble.

  Author: Chuck Yeager

• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

  Author: August Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Author: Roger Wicker

• The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

  Author: E. White

• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

  Author: Rebecca West

• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  Author: Mae West

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  Author: H. Wells

• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

  Author: John Waters

• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  Author: George Washington

• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

  Author: William Ward

• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  Author: Burt Ward

• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

  Author: John Wanamaker

• On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

  Author: Rob Walton

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

  Author: Barbara Walters

• The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Author: Alice Walker

• The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

  Author: George Wald

• It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

  Author: Tim Wakefield

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

  Author: Bernard Voto

• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Author: Voltaire

• What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

  Author: Virgil

• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

  Author: Sarah Vaughan

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Author: Paul Valery

• I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Author: Mark Twain

• To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

  Author: Pete Townshend

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

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

  Author: James Thurber

• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  Author: James Thurber

• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  Author: James Thurber

• You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

  Author: George Thorogood

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

  Author: Hunter Thompson

• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

  Author: A. Taylor

• The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  Author: William Taft

• Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.

  Author: Peter Sutcliffe

• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• 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.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

  Author: Caskie Stinnett

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  Author: R. Stine

• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

  Author: Jason Statham

• In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  Author: John Speke

• I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

  Author: Britney Spears

• I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• When trouble ends even troubles please.

  Author: Sophocles

• In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• 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 impulsively without thinking.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.

  Author: Bubba Smith

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

  Author: Eddie Slovik

• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

  Author: Robert Shaw

• Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

  Author: George Shaw

• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

  Author: George Shaw

• If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

  Author: Al Sharpton

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

  Author: Bill Shankly

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

  Author: Ayrton Senna

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

  Author: David Selznick

• Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

  Author: William Scranton

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell

• Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

  Author: Charles Schumer

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

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  Author: Pete Sampras

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

  Author: Mark Russell

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

  Author: Bertrand Russell

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

  Author: David Ruffin

• When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

  Author: Wilma Rudolph

• He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

  Author: Patrick Roy

• Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

  Author: Ethel Rosenberg

• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

  Author: Will Rogers

• I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

  Author: Alexandra Ripley

• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

  Author: Ellen Richards

• There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

  Author: Alain Resnais

• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

  Author: Jamie Redknapp

• Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

  Author: Maureen Reagan

• Never meet trouble half-way.

  Author: John Ray

• If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

  Author: Herbert Prochnow

• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  Author: J. Priestley

• A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

  Author: Charley Pride

• As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

  Author: Katie Price

• If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

• The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Author: Terry Pratchett

• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

  Author: Dennis Potter

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

  Author: Chaim Potok

• The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

  Author: Ernest Poole

• So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

  Author: John Podesta

• Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

  Author: Titus Plautus

• A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

  Author: Titus Plautus

• You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

  Author: Oliver Platt

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

  Author: Tom Petri

• It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

  Author: Tom Petri

• Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

  Author: Roger Peterson

• The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

  Author: Gaylord Perry

• Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

  Author: John Perkins

• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Author: Norman Peale

• I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

  Author: Thomas Payne

• One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

  Author: Cesare Pavese

• I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

  Author: Rob Paulsen

• The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

  Author: Brian Palma

• The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

  Author: Michael Palin

• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

  Author: Satchel Paige

• Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

  Author: Thomas Page

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

  Author: Ovid

• I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

  Author: Beth Orton

• Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

  Author: Margaret Oliphant

• Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

  Author: Gary Numan

• Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

  Author: Tenzing Norgay

• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

  Author: Max Nordau

• If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

  Author: Don Nickles

• It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

  Author: Robert Nelson

• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  Author: Ogden Nash

• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

  Author: Joe Murray

• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

  Author: Maureen Murphy

• I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

  Author: Dennis Muren

• Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

  Author: Frankie Muniz

• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  Author: Martin Mull

• Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

  Author: Martin Mull

• The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

  Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

• Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

  Author: Lord Mountbatten

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

  Author: Robert Morley

• They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

  Author: John Morley

• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

  Author: Dwight Moody

• Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

  Author: L. Montgomery

• There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  Author: Thomas Monson

• The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

  Author: Marilyn Monroe

• I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

  Author: Dominic Monaghan

• 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.

  Author: Brian Molko

• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Author: Henry Miller

• The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

  Author: George Miller

• I've always had trouble with authority.

  Author: John Milius

• Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

  Author: Herman Melville

• Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

  Author: Marian McPartland

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  Author: Larry McMurtry

• I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• 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.

  Author: Tug McGraw

• I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

  Author: Phil McGraw

• I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

  Author: Mary McDonnell

• When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

  Author: Hattie McDaniel

• I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

  Author: Mercedes McCambridge

• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Author: Debi Mazar

• The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

  Author: W. Maugham

• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

  Author: John Marston

• Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

  Author: Peter Marshall

• The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

  Author: Don Marquis

• I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

  Author: Cheech Marin

• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

  Author: Daniel Mainwaring

• One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  Author: F. Lucas

• If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

  Author: Shelley Long

• My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

  Author: James Lipton

• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

  Author: Richard Linklater

• Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

  Author: Ben Lindsey

• If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

  Author: Sinclair Lewis

• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  Author: Jerry Lewis

• I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

  Author: Oscar Levant

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

  Author: Abe Lemons

• I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

  Author: Stephen Lawrence

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

  Author: Avril Lavigne

• To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

  Author: Robert Laughlin

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

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

  Author: Doug Larson

• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Author: Ann Landers

• At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

  Author: Ann Landers

• I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

  Author: Guy Lafleur

• The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

  Author: Nguyen Ky

• The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

  Author: Louis Kronenberger

• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

  Author: Willem Kooning

• I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

  Author: Kenneth Koch

• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

  Author: Philip Knight

• I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

  Author: Robert Kirkman

• Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

  Author: Rudyard Kipling

• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Author: Rudyard Kipling

• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

  Author: Soren Kierkegaard

• I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

  Author: Nikita Khrushchev

• Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  Author: Ken Kesey

• 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.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

  Author: Thomas Kempis

• Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

  Author: John Kellogg

• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

  Author: Helen Keller

• When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

  Author: Toby Keith

• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Author: Garrison Keillor

• It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

  Author: John Keegan

• We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

  Author: Robbie Keane

• I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

  Author: Lawrence Kasdan

• The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

  Author: Yousuf Karsh

• The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

  Author: Bob Kane

• Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

  Author: Steve Kanaly

• Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

  Author: Henry Kaiser

• We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

  Author: Oliver Kahn

• I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

  Author: Mike Judge

• I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

  Author: William Joyce

• I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

  Author: William Joyce

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

  Author: Bill Joy

• I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Author: Erica Jong

• The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Author: Erica Jong

• It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

  Author: Quincy Jones

• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  Author: Quincy Jones

• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

  Author: Angelina Jolie

• I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

  Author: Angelina Jolie

• As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

  Author: Harry Johnston

• A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

  Author: Phillip Johnson

• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

  Author: Jimmy Johnson

• It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

  Author: Robert Jenkins

• Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

  Author: Thomas Jarvis

• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

  Author: Harriet Jacobs

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

  Author: Reggie Jackson

• The trouble with records is that they're too short.

  Author: Mahalia Jackson

• This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

  Author: Joseph Jackson

• Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

  Author: Bo Jackson

• 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.

  Author: Clifford Irving

• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  Author: William Inge

• If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

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