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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.


Chinua Achebe

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
ENGLISH PROVERB The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
SAINT PETER OF ALCANTARA A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to ...
C.S. LEWIS The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
TOBA BETA The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.
P.I. BARRINGTON She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making...
L. M. MONTGOMERY Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
FRANK WILCZEK Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.
FRANCINE RIVERS A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always ...
BARBARA BRADFORD When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always ...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
THOMAS FULLER [The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
JOHN STERLING We ran a man-to-man, and then we got in foul trouble, and I had to go into a zone, and I was afraid ...
JODI HILLEGASS The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde...
HENRY MILLER The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde...
HENRY G. MILLER Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
LLOYD ALEXANDER I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
KATIE MCGARRY I had trouble making the weight.
ELEANOR VOSBERG We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
H. V. ADOLT the only trouble I should get in for my writing is the trouble I make myself.
LEMONY SNICKET Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
MASON COOLEY Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
PLAUTUS A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he doe...
AGNES REPPLIER The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he d...
AGNES REPPLIER A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door
CONFUCIUS When Betancourt went looking for trouble with Sanchez, both are responsible for all the trouble they...
CHUCK HUGHES Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
MICHAEL CACOYANNIS The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...
BARUCH SPINOZA A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia
AFRICAN PROVERBS It was started because we needed to service kids who were having trouble making it in a regular clas...
BILL LUTZ Never wait for trouble.
CHUCK YEAGER Teams with playing-making guards give them trouble.
CHRIS ALLEN Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS An enpty mind is always looking for trouble.
JAMES YAGER Norway is the cradle of skiing. It's a good sport. For kids, it's a good way to stay out of trouble....
CECILIE KLAUMANN The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
CHARLES W. ELIOT The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man without challenges, trouble and difficulties is simply a man without a course in life
ETC WANYANWU A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really no...
CRISS JAMI A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
CONFUCIUS The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
CHARLES ERWIN WILSON I apologize for causing trouble.
HISAYASU NAGATA He was a bad kid. He would get himself in trouble hitting people.
JASMINE WILLIAMS I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been...
BETH ORTON Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They played man-to-man which gave us some trouble.
TROY YOUNG Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Y...
BIBLE A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased wi...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
LEE IACOCCA He who digs a pit for others, falls in himself
PROVERB We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOS We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is '...
SAM KEEN One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame...
TROUBLE AND STRIFE Hogs cause trouble for other wildlife,
DAVID HAYDEN Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man.
UNKNOWN I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I'...
BETH ORTON I heard the dry air was brutal for a knuckleball. People told me that I was going to have trouble ma...
JARED FERNANDEZ Giving is akin to looking for the trouble of blessings.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country , ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country or...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI I don't care about what am I, I care about what you are...
BODDU SUBBARAO It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring...
AMBER ARGYLE The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine ow...
ABU SA'ID Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
BIBLE You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
GEORGETTE HEYER I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
ROBERT E. LEE He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
UNKNOWN He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others
ANDRE GIDE An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims...
AYN RAND Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for...
LILLY DACHE The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
MARK TWAIN Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
BIBLE A devotee should trouble only one person, the God, until he reveals himself to him.
DR HITESH C SHETH When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
ED HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
E. W. HOWE A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
CHARLEY PRIDE O man, do not ever forget the God who hearkened to your voice in time of trouble
RAYMOND OBENG Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
KIN HUBBARD Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.
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