The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
I have never believed in the fallacy that the federal government can buy its way out of economic troubles through needless spending. For that reason, I am proud to oppose 'stimulus' packages and endless corporate bailouts, which will do little but weaken the long-term integrity of the American economy.
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.