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What's the aim of the school of business, for example? They teach students how business is conducted today and how to perpetuate it. Any wonder we're in trouble? They ought to be preparing students for the future, not for the past.

—Deming,W(illiam) Edwards

It's a man's joböno place for women's plans here!öwhat lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

—Aeschylus

   Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting†there are quite enough realcauses oftroublealready, and weneed not add to them by encouraging young men to kickeach other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

—Bankhead,Tallulah

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

Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

Gertie recommended her to adopt the habit of not magnifying grievances; if you wanted to view trouble, you could take opera-glasses, but you should be careful to hold them the wrong way round.

—Ridge,W(illiam) Pett

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

I share all your antipathy to the noisy Plebeian excursionist. Avisit to Ramsgate during the season and the vision of the crowded, howling sands has left in me feelings which all my Radicalism cannot allay. At the same time I think that the lower orders are seen unfavourably when enjoying themselves. In labour and trouble they are more dignified and less noisy.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

boss there is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble 554

—Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)

   Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: in another's trouble, in your own.

—Gordon, Adam Lindsay

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: Job he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

—Bible (Old Testament)

There may be trouble ahead But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance Let's face the music and dance

—Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline

Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense) Will find aTiger will repay the trouble and expense.

—Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

Women liketosit downwith trouble as if it were knitting.

—Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

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

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

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life† My life began by flickering out.

—Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

—Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake†but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

—Crisp, Quentin

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 trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor reads it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phoney every minute.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

The trouble with Moore is that he knows what a work of art is, and is trying to make one.

—Fry, Roger Eliot

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

—Bible (Old Testament)

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.

—Dryden,John

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

—Wagner, Robert Ferdinand,Jr

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