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Quotations
Stop thinking, and end your problems. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 12 likes | |
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 9 likes | |
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 8 likes | |
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them... — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes | |
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes | |
When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 5 likes | |
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 5 likes | |
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. — Anonymous 4 likes | |
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 4 likes | |
Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes | |
Four specters haunt the poor: old age, accident, sickness and unemployment — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes | |
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 4 likes | |
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 4 likes | |
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes | |
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes | |
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes | |
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 3 likes | |
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes | |
With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 2 likes | |
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 2 likes | |
Now is the winter of our discontent. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ King Richard III 2 likes | |
Most of the trouble happens so quickly because we’re halfway there. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes | |
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own. — Nelson Algren, 1909-1981, American writer 2 likes | |
True is it that we have seen better days. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It 2 likes | |
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes | |
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better. | |
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. | |
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. | |
A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him. | |
Happiness is the sum of all the misfortunes we don't have. | |
Misfortune can only be consoled with the misfortune of others. | |
Everything is a matter of point of view, and misfortune is often only a sign of a false interpretation of life. | |
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. | |
Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Quotes in Verse
And if your pit is too deep, it is your duty to use your hands to get up. — Kostas Varnalis, 1883-1974, Greek poet 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
What happened to you could have been worse – it could have happened to me. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist | |
I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
Time is the healer of all inevitable ills. Πάντων των αναγκαίων κακών ιατρός χρόνος εστίν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 14 likes | |
A long life creates myriads of troubles. Μακρός γαρ αιών μυρίοις τίκτει πόνους. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Oenomaus 6 likes | |
it is important to think clearly in times of trouble. Μέγα το εν συμφορήσι, φρονέειν ά δει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes | |
Happy are those who have never experienced misfortune. Ευδαίμονες οίσι κακών άγευστος αιών. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Αντιγόνη 4 likes | |
Running away comes with many hardships. Πόλλ’ εφέλκεται φυγή κακά ξυν αυτή. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes | |
Hide your misfortune. Ατυχίαν κρύπτε. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 4 likes | |
Nothing bad can be lost easily. Ουδέν κακόν ραδίως απόλλυται. 4 likes | |
The root of misfortune is pleasure seeking. Εξ ηδονής γαρ φύεται το δυστυχείν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 4 likes | |
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Άνδρα μοι έννεπε, Μούσα, πολύτροπον, ός μάλα πολλά — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey I 3 likes | |
We sing while our houses are on fire! Των οικιών ημών εμπιμπραμένων, ημείς άδομεν. 3 likes | |
Other countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full. Άλλα δε μυρία λυγρά κατ’ ανθρώπους αλάληται· πλείη μεν γαρ γαία κακών, πλείη δε θάλασσα. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -101 3 likes | |
For marriage is the worst misfortune! Ως εστι το γαμείν έσχατον του δυστυχείν. — Antiphanes, 405-335 BC, Ancient comic poet 2 likes | |
For in misery men grow old quickly. Αίψα γαρ εν κακότητι βροτοί καταγηράσκουσιν. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -93 2 likes | |
Of unbridled talk and lawless follies misfortune is the end. Αχαλίνων στομάτων, ανόμου τ’ αφροσύνας το τέλος δυστυχία. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Bacchae 2 likes | |
My dear, learn from your misfortunes not to be too proud. Ω ταν, διδάσκου μη θρασύνεσθαι κακοίς. |
Proverbs
One’s good luck is another’s misfortune. 6 likes | |
The troubles of a stranger aren’t worth an onion. 3 likes | |
Don't meet troubles half-way. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble. — from the film She Done Him Wrong (1933) 5 likes | |
I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned. — from the film Groundhog Day (1993) 2 likes |