Nuisance Quotes

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

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.

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.

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.

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

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.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Property is a nuisance.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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.

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

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.

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.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

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.

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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.

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.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

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.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

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.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

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.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

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.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

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.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

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.

[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.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

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.

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.