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Trouble Quotes by Stephen Leacock
- The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
- It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never…
- The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows…
- Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which…
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
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. — David Bailey