Nuisance Quotations
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Ellis
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
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
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola
Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
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
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