Nuisance Quotes (page 2)

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• faith
• blessed
• home

If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation. Mark Twain

• game
• question
• society

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. Shigeru Miyamoto

• people
• individualism
• thus

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. John Stuart Mill

• past
• enough is enough
• enough

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster

• property
• properties

Property is a nuisance. Paul Erdos

• friends
• friend
• welcome

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

• army
• armies
• correspondence

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. Daniel H. Hill

• greatness
• great
• war

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. Henry Villard

• government
• governed
• wills

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? Charles Olson

• regret
• perfect
• regretful

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. Emile Zola

• may
• universe
• reality

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. Baruch Spinoza

• lies
• dedication
• lying here

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity. David Low

• up
• want
• wanted

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. Frank Carson

• meanness
• meanings
• oneness

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. Lord Salisbury

• good
• small
• war

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time. John Hay Beith