Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
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.
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.
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
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.
Any man among us, voting for their respective candidates, virtually recognizes the righteousness of their principles, and shall be held up to public reprobation as a traitor, a hissing and a byword, a pest and nuisance, and the offscouring of the earth.
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Property is a nuisance.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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