Trouble

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  • It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
        Alexis Carrel   Best?
  • He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
        Epicurus   Best?
  • Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
        Jacob Braude   Best?
  • Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
        Lawrence Bixby   Best?
  • Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
        Frank Leahy   Best?
  • People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
        Audrey Hepburn   Best?
  • Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
        French Proverb   Best?
  • Don't worry about a thing,
        Bob Marley   Best?
  • Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
        Black Elk, Native American   Best?
  • Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
        Lord Acton   Best?
  • If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
        Ben Franklin   Best?
  • To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
        Madonna   Best?
  • When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
        Thomas More   Best?
  • I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
        D. H. Lawrence   Best?
  • We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
        Emma Thompson   Best?
  • I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
        Emma Goldman   Best?
  • History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
        James A. Froude   Best?
  • Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
        Ovid   Best?
  • Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
        Nathaniel Emmons   Best?
  • Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
        Moses Hasid   Best?
  • Strain every nerve to gain your point.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
        Duke Ellington   Best?
  • It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
        Muhammad Ali   Best?
  • Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
        David Lloyd George   Best?
  • A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
        Mae West   Best?
  • Once in the racket you're always in it.
        Al Capone   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
        Michael Jackson   Best?
  • You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
        John Ciardi   Best?
  • I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
        Noel Coward   Best?

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