Nuisance Quotes
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
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Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
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Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
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Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.
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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.
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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
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Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.
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Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
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“Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.”
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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Property is a nuisance.
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Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."
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I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?
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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
