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.
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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.
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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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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.
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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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That sends a powerful message to society that we're a nuisance and disposable and you can do what you want with us.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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'When people decide an animal is a nuisance, they are basically putting a death penalty on that animal.'
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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