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Definition of Bother

Bother

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

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Bother Quotations

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. 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.
William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz

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.
Michel de Montaigne

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
William Howard Taft

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"
Sydney J. Harris

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
Brad Pitt

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Greta Garbo

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
Robert Downey, Jr.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
Robert Benchley

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
Yoko Ono

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Tre Cool

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
Wanda Sykes

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira

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Bother Translations

bother in Danish is forstyrre, hindre
bother in Dutch is belemmeren, storen, hinderen
bother in Finnish is vaivata
bother in Italian is frastornare
bother in Norwegian is bryderi
bother in Spanish is estorbar, fastidiar

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