nuisances

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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances. Charles Babbage

[The Leesburg Garden Club is a] nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. Lyndon LaRouche

In simple terms: art has not been a public nuisance for quite a while now. either the people have become well-behaved or the perpetrators of nuisances have become tired. Günter Brus

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

In fact, making up a spiteful lie has become respectable. Today's "jesters" are outright public nuisances. Lindsey Davis

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left. P. J. O'Rourke