trouble quotes

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Lady Utterword to Hector Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act1.

Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help when in trouble.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Speech,Washington, Jan.

Here, where the world is quiet, Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds'and spent waves'riot In doubtful dreams of dreams.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'The Garden of Proserpine'.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins, ch.12.

Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Aunt Polly.TheAdventures ofTom Sawyer, ch.1.

Whenindanger, ponder. Whenintrouble, delegate. And when in doubt, mumble.

-Wagner, Robert Ferdinand,Jr
  In the NewYorkTimes,17 Feb.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, It has trouble enough of its own.

-Wilcox, EllaWheeler
  Poems of Passion,'Solitude'.

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