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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

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

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble.
Euripides

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.
Mike Tyson

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

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.
Hedy Lamarr

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

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale

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.
Ann Landers

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

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

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

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

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

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.
James Thurber

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

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.
James Thurber