Quotes with trouble-makers

Quotes 201 till 220 of 286.

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery
  French poet (1871 - 1945)
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• The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

  Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Bernard Devoto
  American historian, essayist and teacher
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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly
  Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  Abe Lemons
  American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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• The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

  Cher
  American singer and actress (1946 - )
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• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers
  American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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• The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

  George Mikes
   
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• The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

  Arnold H. Glasgow
  American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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• 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
  British trade unionist (1938 - )
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• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne (1939 - )
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• The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

  Bernard Devoto
  American historian, essayist and teacher
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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''

  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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• The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

  Anzia Yezierska
  Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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• The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

  Harlan Miller
   
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• The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

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  Iain Banks
  Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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• The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• significance
• experiments
• philippines
• intelligent
• leadership

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