trouble

Thomas Jefferson's Decalogue of Canons II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Trouble is,son, The farther you run, The more you feel undefined For what you have left undone And, more, what you've left behind.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. Shana Alexander (1925 - ____) US news commentator In "Life," 8 Jul 1966.

Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.