A Quote by Aesop

Don't go looking for trouble. — © Aesop
Don't go looking for trouble.

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I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.
Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.
Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.
One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.
Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.
After a two-hour session in the gym, you can't then go out and be up for looking for trouble, you just want to eat and sleep.
For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
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