The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. Howard Baker
We have self-centred minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. Joko Beck
It takes two to get one in trouble. Mae West
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. Soren Kierkegaard
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance.
He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. Herbert N Casson, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association 1928 Sheet Metal Workers Journal p 22
This peck of troubles. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote II: LIII
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. Seneca the Younger, Hippolytus II iii 607
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill
What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile. George Asaf, ‘Smile, Smile, Smile’
There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows – in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain – in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine – it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Exactly the same lack of feeling for each other prevailed amongst the members of all the different trades. Everybody seemed glad if anybody got into trouble for any reason whatever. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
‘And I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.’ His voice rose nearly to a shout. ‘You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You keep me in hot water all the time.’ John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
I heard you know we could get in a lot of trouble for having like dope and guns. Trailer Park Boys s2e7: The Bare Pimp Project, Bubbles