"The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough."
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"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
"You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries."
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba."
"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."
"I was in love again. I was in trouble"
"I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance."
"The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes."
"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."
"I've never been in trouble with the police."
"But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it."
"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
"Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
"Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles."
"If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it."
"People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them."
"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."
"I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble."
"Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble."