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Property is a nuisance. -- Paul Erdos
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? -- Charles Olson
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. -- Havelock Ellis
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. -- Emile Zola
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. -- Plautus
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. -- Frank Carson
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. -- John Stuart Mill
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
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. -- E. M. Forster
Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors. -- Will Rogers
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. -- Edith Sitwell
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity. -- David Low
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. -- Christoph Waltz
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. -- George Bernard Shaw
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst. -- Kin Hubbard
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. -- Margery Allingham
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance -- Margery Allingham
Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance. -- Paul Erdos
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. -- Katharine Lee Bates
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. -- Andy Grove
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance. -- Yolanda Adams
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 truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it. -- Jim Cooper
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
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. -- Henry Villard
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. -- Steven Pinker
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
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave. -- Temple Grandin
Practically everybody knows what it's 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
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. -- Charles Baudelaire
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told. -- Aaron Swartz
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools. -- Oscar Wilde
Cleverness becomes a public nuisance. -- Oscar Wilde
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance. -- Winifred Holtby
Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance. -- Josh Billings
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life. -- George Bernard Shaw
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. -- Louis Eric Barrier
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. -- Rudyard Kipling
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. -- Gustav Holst
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance -- Tom Holt
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends. -- Rumer Godden
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. -- George Bernard Shaw
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? -- Colleen McCullough
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. -- Freya Stark
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. -- Fay Weldon
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance. -- Yun Kouga
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. -- Hortense Calisher
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. -- Will Rogers
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. -- Augustus
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. -- Sally Stanford
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. -- Susan Sontag
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. -- Thomas Sowell
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. -- Margaret Atwood
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
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
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
They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off. -- Prince Philip
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem. -- Garrison Keillor
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
I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary -- Hugh Lofting
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
Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try. -- Yiyun Li
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
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting. -- Gertrude Stein
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing. -- Will Rogers
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace. -- George Jonas
I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without. -- Gertrude Stein
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
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl. -- Robert Frost
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. -- Thomas Beecham
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves. -- Terry Pratchett
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. -- Bertrand Russell
Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order. -- Gunter Brus

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