Better be unmannerly than troublesome. [ Proverb ]

As troublesome as a wasp in one's ear. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Kindnesses that we cannot requite are troublesome. [ Proverb ]

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things. [ Epictetus ]

Witty coxcombs are the most troublesome of all coxcombs. [ Proverb ]

Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. [ Proverb ]

A new friend is sometimes only a troublesome acquaintance. [ James Ellis ]

Unmannerly a little, is better than troublesome a great deal. [ Proverb ]

There are no coxcombs so troublesome as those that have some wit. [ Proverb ]

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. [ Chilo ]

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation. [ Johnson ]

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. [ La Roche ]

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. [ Goethe ]

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]

That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. [ Plutarch ]

To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]