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  • Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]

    Kings   Trying   Needs  
  • It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

    Reality   Men   Nuisance  
    "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Prop. 30: Note), 1677.
  • At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

    tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”
  • If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

  • I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

    Mean   Men   Nuisance  
    Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”
  • It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

    Loyalty   Character   Law  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics
  • The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

  • A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

    Pigs   Nuisance   May  
    Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, (388), 1926.
  • I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

    Clever   Sick   People  
    Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”
  • As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

    Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage
  • I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

  • Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience.

    Air   Ice   Long  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.

    Running   Brother   Hate  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

    Veg Family, March 2003.
  • Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

  • Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.

    "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave McKeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.
  • If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. - Candice Carpenter Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

  • Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

    Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications
  • The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

    Law   Long   Great Day  
  • [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

    Fun   Book   Dirty  
  • I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much, and just started getting so annoyed with leg hair and arm hair, because I was falling so much when I was learning. So I would get scabs on my legs, and the hair would get caught in it. It just became a nuisance. And from that point on, I continued to shave my arms and legs and tried to stay sleek.

    Fall   School   Hair  
    "Ryan Sheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.
  • Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

    Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens, Laurence Hutton (1893). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Letters and Speeches”
  • Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

    War   Giving   Nuisance  
    Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

  • Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

    Fall   Men   Romance  
  • Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

    Nuisance   Earth   Speech  
    Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”
  • Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.

    Order   White   Nuisance  
    "Gunter Brus: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber (p. 14), 2005.
  • For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

    Sports   Military   War  
  • Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

    Baby   Children   Husband  
  • Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

    Wise   Blessing   Men  
    Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.148, Zondervan
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