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Wednesday Colloquium #22: Trouble
Paul Schoenlaub: When the rain comes down mile after mile it doesn’t matter what you know.
Terry Pratchett: We’d all be in trouble if we went around believing everything.
Tao Te Ching: Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble.
Lily Tomlin: The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Kakuzo Okakura: Those of us who know not the secret of properly regulating our own existence on this tumultuous sea of foolish troubles which we call life are constantly in a state of misery while vainly trying to appear happy and contented.
Terry Pratchett: If you fell off a cliff, it wouldn’t matter if the ground was rushing up or you were rushing down. You were in trouble either way.
H.G. Wells: There is no fear nor trouble in balloons -until they descend.
C.H. Spurgeon: The path of trouble is the way home.
Norman Cousins: The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson: The trouble with what everyone knows is that you can never be sure that everyone knows it.
Terry Nation: That’s the trouble with heroics: they seldom run to schedule.
Misha Lazzara: People wanting more than what they needed was what led to so many of the world’s problems.
Evelyn Underhill: Nothing is a trial when we are able to cope with it efficiently.
Bruce Coburn: The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
Terry Pratchett: The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.
Kathleen Norris: Literature can get a person into deep trouble.
Neal Stephenson: If this all seems ambiguous, that’s because it is; and if that troubles you, you’d hate it here.
Josh Billings: The trouble with most people isn’t ignorance, it’s knowing too many things which just ain’t so.
Mark Twain: I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Gerald G. May: How many apparent obstacles in life are really openings through which new invitations come?
Terry Pratchett: The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
C.H. Spurgeon: Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.
William Goldman: As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.
Bill Wilson: Adversity truly introduces us to ourselves.
William Shakespeare: A woman moved is like a fountain troubled.
Terry Pratchett: That’s the trouble with a brain—it thinks more than you sometimes want it to.
Duke Ellington: A problem is another chance to do your very best.
Horace: Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Billy Graham: Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Ben Jonson: He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
C.H. Spurgeon: If we would learn to profit from our prosperity, we should not need so much adversity.
Abraham Lincoln: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
William Shakespeare: Sweet are the uses of adversity.
