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

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West

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

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

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.
Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
Charles de Gaulle

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

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
Dwight L. Moody