Top 223 Troublesome Quotes & Sayings

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

I make it very clear that cooking and soaking helps to reduce the lectins in troublesome foods like beans and grains.

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

People who join my organization are usually very cool at first, but they become troublesome later.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

You are strangely troublesome.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences

A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior.