#troubles

She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#coping #drinking-your-troubles-away #happy-hour #loss #lost-love

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#grammar #humor #misunderstandings #problems #troubles

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ↗

— John Keats

#intelligence #make #necessary #pains #school

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#get #go #i #often #swimming

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#angry #bear #drink #dust #eternity

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! ↗

— Elif Shafak

#thankfulness #troubles #life

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deepest #forests #frequently #i #me

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#cash #get #i #live #messages

As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#men #troublesome-marriage #vomit #women #marriage