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I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may read more
You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;
You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule
Should ever be kept at the front;--
Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace
It takes two to get one in trouble.
It takes two to get one in trouble.
