Convenience Quote by Robert Staughton Lynd

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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…

— Anonymous

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

— Plautus

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and…

— Vera Brittain

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making…

— Lyndon LaRouche

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows…

— Vandana Shiva

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Rumer Godden

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality…

— Baruch Spinoza

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs