THE TROUBLE WITH GERANIUMS The trouble with geraniums is that they’re much too red! The trouble with my toast is that it’s far too full of bread. The trouble with a diamond is that it’s much too bright. The same applies to fish and stars and the electric light. The troubles with the stars I see lies in the way they fly. The trouble with myself is all self- centred in the eye. The trouble with my looking- glass is that it shows me, me; there’s trouble in all sorts of things where it should never be