A youth was questioning a lonely old man, 'What is life's heaviest burden?' he asked. The old fellow answered sadly, 'To have nothing to carry.'

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a good many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

From troubles of the world I turn to ducks, beautiful comical things.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I think there is this about the great troubles. They teach us the art of cheerfulness; whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

How little it takes to make life unbearable ... a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Nothing lasts for ever - not even your troubles.