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A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.

Yiddish proverb

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Because of the traffic and the nature of the area, commercial development is almost inevitable. The challenge is to come up with development that is not a nuisance.

Joe Merritt

In 1954, cars were bigger and repairing these little bridges was a nuisance. The big bridge came down in 1954. That would have been the seventh bridge.

Nancy Hill

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

Edith Sitwell

When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a nuisance because it is affecting the public health, because the smell is so bad.

Andrea Salinas

That sends a powerful message to society that we're a nuisance and disposable and you can do what you want with us.

Valerie Scott

...we were considered a nuisance, now we're not, I'd like to know why?

Richard Swanson

I don't know what their excuse is except to be there to create a nuisance.

Graham Dixon

We've marked over 200, and five became nuisance animals.

Stan Gehrt

If they could contain that drainage within that property and not create a mosquito-drawing nuisance, then, yes, that would be a way to dispose of it.

Bryan Wagner

Since we have caused a nuisance to the society, our basic stance is to track down the whereabouts of every last one of them.

Akira Kadota

Obviously, it's considered a nuisance, especially dealing with the droppings. There's no immediate health concern with the crows other than an extreme nuisance.

Greg Chance

The McNeilus building was built over a tile line and it's more of a nuisance than anything really.

Michael Hanson

I believe we'll now see a reduction in nuisance complaints, a reduction in serious complaints and that we'll get more information about these bears because of this.

Martin Mchugh

That's kind of a nuisance at times. But we take the good with the bad.

Robert Perry

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

Frank Carson

I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.

Neil Kinnock

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

These taxes are a nuisance to businesses.

Gyorgy Matolcsy

If you go into the meetings and look at the process as a nuisance or a burden, you're going to get what you deserve. But if you follow the process, even if it means taking some arrows, it's worth the effort.

Sam Savarino

He is better than just making a nuisance of himself. That's unfair, because he is a genuinely good footballer.

Jamie Redknapp

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Accessibility has been an afterthought and nuisance to the county.

William Tucker

It happens almost every day but is a nuisance that we residents can obviously do without because it is hampering our normal schedules.

Richard Edwards

There's a lot of good cases to be made for them as long as they don't become a nuisance to the neighbors.

Audrey Kader

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

Sir David Low

It's more of a nuisance at a time when we're trying to wend our way through 20,000-plus applications.

Lee Stetson

Not anybody can do the job. If his mother was violating the nuisance ordinances, he'd cite her.

Pat Patrick

At first we thought it was a nuisance thing - kids being pests or just doing dumb things - but this was something a lot more.

Victor Lieberman

It saves nuisance. More companies will probably have an appetite for instruments that otherwise would have triggered bifurcation.

Mark Adelson

We can take what is a crisis now and make it a manageable nuisance.

John Keeley

We definitely do not want to be a hazard or a nuisance.

Terry Saeger

Basically, the high water has been just a nuisance. We pretty much dodged a bullet.

Gary Robb

I just hate to see us adopt another ordinance that is a feel good ordinance that our police officers who are extremely busy right now are not going to enforce and it becomes another nuisance.

Eric Turner