Trouble proverbs

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◆ I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

- James Patterson99

◆ I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

- Lev Grossman99

◆ If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

- Cormac McCarthy99

◆ I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

- Israelmore Ayivor99

◆ You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

- Jonathan Anthony Burkett99

◆ I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

- Montesquieu99

◆ Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

- Eoin Colfer99

◆ Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth — when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass — the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another — particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ No, no, I never mess around.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.

- Jennifer Crusie99