Send not to market for trouble. [ Proverb ]
There is more talk than trouble. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that seeks trouble never misses. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Once resolved, the trouble is over. [ Italian Proverb ]
Little wealth brings little trouble. [ Proverb ]
Needles and pins, needles and pins!
When a man marries his trouble begins. [ Proverb ]
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble. [ Proverb ]
A clear conscience can bear any trouble. [ Proverb ]
He that seeks trouble never misses of it. [ Proverb ]
You could spy trouble if your eyes were out. [ Proverb ]
A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,
But a joy that's shared is a joy made double. [ Proverb ]
Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. [ Proverb ]
A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. [ Plaut ]
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. [ Ward Beecher ]
Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble. [ Carlyle ]
Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. [ John Marston ]
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. [ Job v. 7 ]
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
The whole trouble is, that we won't let God help us. [ George MacDonald ]
He that gives customarily to the vulgar buys trouble. [ Proverb ]
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. [ Yogi Berra ]
If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The wicked grow worse, and the good men better from trouble. [ Proverb ]
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [ Seneca ]
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]
A man with a running head never wants wherewith to trouble himself. [ Proverb ]
Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. [ Carlyle ]
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. [ Goldsmith ]
In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]
What a miserable world! - trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love. [ Count de Maistre ]
With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind. [ John Ruskin ]
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [ Plautus ]
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. [ Epictetus ]
Trouble makes every sad accident a double evil, and contentedness makes it none at all. [ Proverb ]
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. [ Melanchthon ]
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. [ Berthold Auerbach ]
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. [ Bp. Patrick ]
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. [ Father Du Bosc ]
Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil thyself in trouble and differences by being over-solicitous in thy own defence. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two give us most trouble. [ Goethe ]
Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
[ John Bate ]
Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]
The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect. [ Jeremiah Day ]
Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken. To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. [ Richter ]
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]
It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.
Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]
Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. [ John Ruskin ]
It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]
As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran?
[ Rev. Dr. Donne ]