Troubles Quotes

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Power, Society

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

Life, Best, May

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Great, Old, Known

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain

Thoughts, Away, Heels

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

Wishes, Half, Double

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin

Nothing, Wicked, Permanent

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall

Great, God, Blessing

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

Power, End, Political

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

Humor, Sense, Against

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats

School, Soul, Necessary

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Wise, Books

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night, Light, Rather

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men, End, Wealth

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Light, Speak, Dumb

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
Alphonsus Liguori

Life, Love, Friend

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Happiness, Person

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge

Down, Before, Road

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Others, Tear, Dries

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness, Enough, Count

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Past, Sweet, Memory

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton Senna

Money, Business, Strange

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Calvin Coolidge

Down, Keep, Sit

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love, Nature, Best

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Great, Friends, Forgive

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter

Wife, Wanted, Often

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Count, Likes, Joys

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
Arnold H. Glasow

Nothing, Forever, Lasts

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
David Wilkerson

Life, Time, Evil

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius

Great, Yourself, Joy

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil

May, Wolf, Sheep

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