| "What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." »Havelock Ellis |
| "A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." »Titus Maccius Plautus |
| "The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances." »Robert Staughton Lynd |
| "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 |
| "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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