Pest Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of…
— Huw Irranca-Davies
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I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that…
— Sylvester Stallone
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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
— Joe E. Lewis
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No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals…
— Peter Singer
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Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of…
— John Beddington
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and…
— Randolph Bedford
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Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest…
— Maria Theresa
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They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great…
— George Washington
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
— Henry David Thoreau
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How…
— Victor Hugo
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My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or…
— Matthew Scully
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
— William Blake
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
— Johann Most
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You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
— Anne, Princess Royal
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We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no…
— Fisher Ames
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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But…
— Edward Abbey
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I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from…
— Wilfrid Sheed
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status,…
— Steve Irwin
Who Wrote These Pest Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 33 Pest Quotes, led by these top contributors: