Top 540 Trouble Quotes

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Seymour Cray
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
Wayne Rooney
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Tenzing Norgay
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which pl

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
Aldrich Ames
There’s no doubt that there is star treatment. It’s discussed in the meetings. Obviously, people don’t pay an enormous amount of money to sit in those courtside seats to see players like Kobe, LeBron, Shaq – all the greats – sit on the bench and be in foul trouble.
Tim Donaghy
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
Earl Warren
He’s an absolute icon. Everything he brings, how he carries himself. Never having trouble with the media, never done anything wrong. He’s a superstar for a reason. He’s LeBron James for a reason.
Frances Tiafoe
Actually what I’d like is to have a reputation as someone who’s been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
Ben Barnes
Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy’s naughty at school, he’s a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl’s naughty, she’s trouble.
Emily Berrington
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
Kenneth Grahame
Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn’t changed the attitudes of babies at all.
Phyllis Schlafly
I’m not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.
Lita Ford
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Francis Ford Coppola
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it’s all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek
Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
Amy Morin
If you ever watched ‘Hercules,’ you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.
Kevin Sorbo
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy Sunday
I realised that you could get into trouble with a dull speech.
Dennis Skinner
Every time I’ve gotten myself into trouble, it’s because I’m choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
Ryan Reynolds
It’s not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you’re telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you’re in trouble.
Didier Deschamps
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
Charles Erwin Wilson
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht
I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.
David Boreanaz
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
David Lloyd George
When trouble ends even troubles please.
Sophocles
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Bob Feller
If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.
Nushrat Bharucha
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written

The trouble with the jokes is that once they’re written, I know how they’re supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I’m more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
Stephen Colbert
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto
I looked back on the roaring Twenties – with its jazz, ‘Great Gatsby,’ and the pre-Code films – as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.
Hugh Hefner
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
Ivor Novello
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they’re quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Arthur Scargill
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare Pavese
Never wait for trouble.
Chuck Yeager
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
Clifford Irving
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you’re gonna get out of it. It’s like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you’re acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I’m having trouble. I’ve just sacked my second screenwriter.
Patricia Highsmith
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
Rupert Brooke
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
Henry B. Eyring
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Robert B. Laughlin
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized – not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience.
Kevin Conroy
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn’t say in 1994 or 2002, I don’t think most people really care.
Laura Ingraham
The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
Eli Wallach
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
Scott Caan
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don’t agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn’t.
Margaret MacMillan
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Johnny Cash
Look at the forces against me. They don’t want me out. They’re afraid I’ll cause trouble if I get out.
Jack Kevorkian
There’s no such thing as a writer’s block. If you’re having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg