I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
—Mark Twain
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
—Calvin Coolidge
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
—Dwight L. Moody
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
—Elbert Hubbard
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
—C. S. Lewis
A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
—Henry Miller
If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or something, then maybe you're just as bad as the people who caused the trouble in the first place.
—Bree Despain in The Lost Saint
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
—Alice Hoffman in Practical Magic
Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans. I'm not sure motivation is always a good thing. You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching tv, . . . and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.
—George Carlin
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
—Lee Iacocca
I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best.
—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband