Trouble

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  • Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
        Bellamy Brooks   Best?
  • The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
        Jerry Falwell   Best?
  • Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
        Confucious   Best?
  • ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
        Leighton   Best?
  • In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
        Anna Louise Strong   Best?
  • What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
        Unknown   Best?
  • I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  • Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
        Socrates   Best?
  • The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
        Jean Jacques Rousseau   Best?
  • If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
        Anne Bradstreet   Best?
  • Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.
        Christina Petrowsky   Best?
  • Partying is such sweet sorrow.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.
        Duffy Daugherty   Best?
  • Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner.
        Alexander Trocchi   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
        Jean Francois Revel   Best?
  • Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
        Yiddish proverb   Best?
  • A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
        Yiddish proverb   Best?
  • There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.
        Claude M. Bristol   Best?
  • Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
        Natalie Goldberg   Best?

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