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Trouble Quotes by Mark Twain
- Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to…
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
- All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if…
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely…
- It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for…
- Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from…
- It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
- Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
- I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust…
- To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- The average man don't like trouble and danger.
- To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
More Trouble Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon