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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.—AESOP, The Fox and the Goat
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Difficulty is a severe instructor.—BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution In France
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.—CARLYLE
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What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.—CHILON
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Ease with difficulty.—CICERO, Oratio Pro Publio Sextio
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The lamentable difficulty I have always experienced in saying "No."—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
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It is difficulties which show what men are.—EPICTETUS, Discourses
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.—GOETHE, Spruche in Prosa
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.—SAMUEL GRAFTON, I'd Rather Be Right
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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.—HORACE, Satires
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Difficulty is, for the most part, the daughter of idleness.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
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He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.—LAO-TSZE, The Simple Way
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So he with difficulty and labor hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labor he.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
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What is worth while must needs be difficult.—OVID, Art of Love
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To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.—PLAUTUS, Mostellaria
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Difficulty makes desire.—Proverb
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Difficulties are opportunities.—Proverb
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What a case am I in.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
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It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
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I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me t' untie.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
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There is nothing so easy but that is becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.—TERENCE, Heauton Timoroumenos
