(definition of a lie)
An abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble.
Barrymore John 1882-1942
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
Follow the Fleet ‚Let's Face the Music and Dance'
There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's moonlight and music and love
and romance,
Let's face the music and dance.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 46 v.1
God is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble.
Davies Robertson 1913-1995
As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The
trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they
do not really know their own kind is.
Defoe Daniel 1660-1731
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled.
Gallant Mavis 1922-
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of
them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Hope Bob 1903-
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Howe Edgar Watson
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything
you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Kaiser Henry J. 1882-1967
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Knight Charles and Lyle Kenneth
‘Here we are! Here we are again!!'
When there's trouble brewing,
When there's something doing,
Are we downhearted?
No! Let ‘em all come!
Koch Kenneth
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Letter to Thomas Manning
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing
troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Landers Ann 1918-
Trouble is the common denominator of living.
It is the great equalizer.
Lewis C. S. 1898-1963
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means
not giving trouble to others. Thus sex regards the other as basically selfish.
Marquis Don 1878-1937
archy does his part
boss there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble.
Pacaud George W.
Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?
Perkins Maxwell 1884-1947
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
Proverbs and Sayings
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
Rogers Will 1879-1935
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Rusk Dean 1909-1994
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The
other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing
to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Shore Dinah
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give
the person who loves you chance to love you enough.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
Ward Nathaniel 1578-1652
Epigram
The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble;
Woman and care, and care and women, and
women and care and trouble.
Wells H.G. 1866-1946
Kipps
‘I'm a Norfan, both sides,' he would explain,
with the air of one who had seen trouble.
Wilcox Ella Wheeler 1855-1919
‘Solitude'
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.