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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
George Bernard Shaw— 1908 Getting Married, preface,'The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy'.
These somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.
— 1896 Speech in the House of Commons,16 Jan. The Times reported the speech under the heading of 'Splendid Isolation', 22 Jan.
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
robert todd carroll— "Graphology", The Skeptic's Dictionary
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
Dave Eggers— Ch. 10, p. 110
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.
william stanley jevons— Preface To The Second Edition, p. 8
Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.
judy lamarsh— CHAPTER 8, Centennial summer, p. 226
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
— Red (1921)
Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing,But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing.The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure,Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny —Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
ogden nash— "The Terrible People"
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
jawaharlal nehru— The Unity of India : Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 94
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
thomas overbury— The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder.
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.
jim stanford— Part 2, Chapter 7, Companies, Owners, and Profit, p. 91
We are in a troublesome period, and some "nonsense" as you term it — but this is a great nation with a high purpose, and we shall come to our senses and resume our course.
harry s. truman— On problems during the Vietnam War, in a letter to Charles Kennedy (18 March 1970)
Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.
george eliot— "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquillity.
marcus aurelius— V, 2. (Book V)
While the daimonic cannot be said to be evil in itself, it confronts us with the troublesome dilemma of whether it is to be used with awareness, a sense of responsibility and the significance of life, or blindly and rashly.
rollo may— p. 129 (Love and Will (1969))
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
Plutarch— Of Hearing, 6.
As to the American [Civil] War it has manifestly ceased to have any attainable object as far as the Northerns are concerned, except to get rid of some more thousand troublesome Irish and Germans. It must be owned, however, that the Anglo-Saxon race on both sides have shown courage and endurance highly honourable to their stock.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Letter to George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (20 October 1862), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 559.
In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 44 (Phineas Redux (1874))
Aristotle had considered the question of whether space is infinite and gave six nonmathematical arguments to prove that it is finite; he foresaw that this question would be troublesome.
— Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments , without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.
— Part 2, Chapter 7, Companies, Owners, and Profit, p. 91
An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it. Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.
— Calvin Mooers (1959) Mooers' law: or, why some retrieval systems are used and others are not. p. 138
In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.
— Hon. George Eulas Foster, speech in the Canadian House of Commons (Jan. 16, 1896).
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
— Plutarch, Of Hearing, VI.
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.
— Jim Stanford (2008) Economics For Everyone Part 2, Chapter 7, Companies, Owners, and Profit, p. 91
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!
thomas love peacock— Thomas Love Peacock, Fly-by-Night, Paper Money lyrics.
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
— Jawaharlal Nehru The Unity of India : Collected Writings, 1937-1940, (1942), p. 94
Nuclear weapon: an agency reserved for use by the most civilized nations for the settlement of disputes that might become troublesome if left unadjusted. Unfortunately, too many formerly uncivilized nations are becoming civilized.
— Leonard Rossiter in the Devil's Bedside Book[ ]
If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
Benjamin Franklin— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
william penn— Some Fruits of Solitude, pg. 147
