Trouble

Famous quotes containing the word trouble:

“The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.”
—Anonymous.

“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixt you,—the trade drops at once: and this is the reason ... why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,—owing to their [the natives’] suspicion ... that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation ... worth the trouble of their bad language.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)