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Trouble

Definition: Difficulty or problems. Cause distress or anxiety to.
Number of Quotes: 7

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams

Genius ... has been described as a supreme capacity for taking trouble ... It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.
Samuel Butler (Author)

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

A man with a bristling grey beard [a yachtsman], said: I made up my mind, when I bought my first boat, never to learn to swim ... When you're in a spot of trouble, if you can swim you try to strike out for the shore. You invariably drown. As I can't swim, I cling to the wreckage and they send a helicopter out for me. That's my tip, if you ever find yourself in trouble, cling to the wreckage!
John Mortimer

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnett

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