My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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.
John Steinbeck

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
William Glasser

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
Joey Adams

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

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

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Lee Iacocca

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.
Woodrow Wilson

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus

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

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