Nuisance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
-- Augustus -
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
-- Augustus -
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
-- Charles Babbage -
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
-- Charles Olson -
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
-- Christoph Waltz -
Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
-- David D. Burns -
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
-- Fay Weldon -
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
-- Frank Carson -
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
-- Geert Hofstede -
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
-- George Sutherland -
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
-- Gustav Holst -
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
-- Havelock Ellis -
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
-- Hortense Calisher -
It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated.
-- Jack McConnell -
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.
-- James Van Allen -
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.
-- John Hay Beith -
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
-- John Stuart Mill -
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
-- Kin Hubbard -
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
-- Lauren Willig -
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
-- Lyndon LaRouche -
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
-- Margery Allingham -
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
-- Marjorie Hillis -
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
-- Neil Welliver -
Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.
-- Paul Erdos -
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd -
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
-- Rumer Godden -
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
-- Tom Holt -
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.
-- William H. Stewart -
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
-- Winifred Holtby -
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.
-- Yun Kouga -
Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination.
-- Conan O'Brien -
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury -
Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
-- Yehuda Levi -
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
-- Daniel Harvey Hill -
I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
-- Raymond Pettibon
