- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trouble Quotes
Words on courting trouble, dodging it, and living with the fallout.
This page gathers quotes on getting into trouble as a kid growing up in a tough neighborhood, the modern risk of oversharing on social media, and even a writer's fear of falling behind at the keyboard.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I get in trouble or into a situation outside of boxing, don't let that make your statement on my boxing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020