Bother Quotes

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them. (Marcus Aurelius)
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. View quote
Colin Powell
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. View quote
Emil Cioran
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. View quote
William Faulkner
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. View quote
Salvador Dalí
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. View quote
Gustav Mahler
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. (W. H. Auden)
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother. View quote
Jane Goodall
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. View quote
Octavia Butler
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. View quote
Richard Bach
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. View quote
Mark Twain
Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? View quote
Elizabeth Moon
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason. View quote
Norman MacCaig
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him. View quote
George Carlin
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there... As long as Blake knows. (Julie Andrews)
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security. View quote
Jimmy Page
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. View quote
Edward Sapir
It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly. View quote
L. Frank Baum