Aggravating Quotes

• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Calm, Calmness

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• That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

  Winona Ryder

  Aggravation, People, Doe

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• While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

  Diego Maradona

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Aggravation, Tuesday, Wonderful

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• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  Harold H. Greene

  Aggravation, Judging, Grids

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• Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cat, Fighting

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.9, 谷月社

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• There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

  Kin Hubbard

  Boys, Aggravation, Literature

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• The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Generations, Younger Generation

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• They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Betting, My Friends

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.157, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

  Matt Stone

  Hollywood, Smugness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Calmness

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• Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

  Shoma Morita

  Pain, Emotional, Self

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• You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Wonderful

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• There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

  Shannon Hale

  Hate, World, Midnight

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.109, A&C Black

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• They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Trying, Beam

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.

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• The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.

  Laurance Labadie

  Government, Self, Health Education

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wife, Forgiving, Peculiar

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.

  Seymour Papert

  Real, Moving, School

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Odd, Found

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• Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Forgiveness, Done, Innocence

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• I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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• There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.165, e-artnow

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