One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.
Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.
If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief. . . Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. . . And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.
But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.