Nuisance Quotes

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

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Here, indeed, was his one really notable talent. He slept more than any other President, whether by day or by night ... Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored ... He had no ideas, and he was not a nuisance.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Unwholesome trades, slaughter-houses, operations offensive to the senses, the deposit of powder, the application of steam power to propel cars, the building with combustible materials, and the burial of the dead, may all, be interdicted by law, in the midst of dense masses of population, on the general and rational principle, that every person ought so to use his property as not to injure his neighbors.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid

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

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

Property is a nuisance.

I like the public hot-tub at the hotels. I like when a guy is already in there, I say, "Hey, do you mind if I join you?" Then I go turn the heat up, and I add some carrots and onions.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.