1.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
Augustus
If we could endure without a spouse, inhabitants of Rome, all of us would do away with that hindrance.
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Geert Hofstede
6.
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
7.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
8.
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
Gustav Holst
10.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill
11.
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
12.
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos
13.
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
14.
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
15.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
Margery Allingham
16.
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
Freya Stark
17.
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
19.
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
Robert M. Hutchins
20.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
21.
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
Rumer Godden
22.
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
23.
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
24.
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Frank Carson
25.
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
Rudyard Kipling
26.
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
27.
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
28.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
George Sutherland
29.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson
30.
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
Kin Hubbard
31.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
Thomas Carlyle
32.
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
33.
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
Hortense Calisher
34.
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
Yehuda Levi
35.
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
36.
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
Christoph Waltz
37.
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
Daniel Harvey Hill
38.
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Will Rogers
39.
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
40.
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
41.
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Thomas Sowell
42.
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
44.
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
45.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Robert Staughton Lynd
46.
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
47.
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
H. L. Mencken
48.
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
Tom Holt
49.
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