A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster. — Geert Hofstede Copy Share Image
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face.… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance.… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal.… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance. — Yun Kouga Copy Share Image
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image