Our time of trouble is because we have not paid good attention to the Messenger of God that He raised among us to warn us of the days that we are now witnessing; days when factories closed and long lines of persons looking for a job. He asked us to get up and do something for ourselves before we were forced to do it. Unfortunately we did not listen.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
I'm always in trouble.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
Misfortunes never come singly.
I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
