Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps;… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
A broom that consitutes a nuisance at sight,become use when the room is dirty. — Don Stainless Wizzy Copy Share Image
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
“Man has no understanding , he can be taught a few simple tricks nothing more. He is a nuisance, the sooner he… — Dr. Zauius Planet of the apes Copy Share Image
“... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
“Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.” — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space… — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.” — James Fallows Copy Share Image
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
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