“Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!” — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance. — Edgar Friedenberg 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
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
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult 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
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“It is only as they are free, educated, enlightened, that they become a nuisance,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. — Augustus Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances… — Ian Hay Copy Share Image