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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." »Havelock Ellis
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"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." »Havelock Ellis
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"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance." »Yiddish Proverb
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"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!" »William Shakespeare
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"His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN" »William Shakespeare
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"While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major nuisance or General Disturbance." »Elaine Richards
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"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison." »Will Rogers
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." »Herman Melville
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"Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world." »Philip Howard
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"The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances." »Robert Staughton Lynd
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"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government." » Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860
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"If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in Hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed" »Ron Garner
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"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit." »Godfather, The
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"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." »D. W. Brogan
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"Good and Bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with FANATICISM and HYPOCRISY. Till Darkness envelopes and you awaken to the FATHER to learn about the real TRUTHS. But i pray ye to desire to be with his FLOCK or face condemnation....just DO WHAT THOU WILT ,conscience and HIS laws being your COMPASS!!" »Moses Valmont
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"All marriages are mixed marriages." »Chantal Saperstein
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