Annoyance Quotes

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Forgiveness, Anger, Annoying

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• The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Smallest

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• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Memories, Mind

  Mark Twain (1870). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.585

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• Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Causes, Annoying

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• People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

  Dylan Moran

  Encouragement, People, Comedian

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• When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

  Ovid

  Heart, Sick, Bears

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• I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Views, Challenges

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• The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

  Jean Piaget

  Gaps, Novelty, Problem

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.354, Routledge

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• What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

  Marquis de Custine

  Complaining, Painful, Complaints

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• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Love, Children, Disappointment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1988). “A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-rearing”, Vintage

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• I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Giving Up, Fall

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• Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Quality, Copying, Common

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• A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Littles, Pay

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• Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance.
  Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance.
  Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice.
  Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness.
  Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter.
  Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.

  Francis of Assisi

  Ignorance, Humility, Dwelling

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  Ellen Ullman

  Yellow, Needs, Machines

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• Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  People, Perfect, Silence

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• Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Best Effort, People, Use

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• Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Healing, Long

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.316

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• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Struggle, Fall

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• My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.

  Catherine Marshall

  Father, Blessing, Thanking Him

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• Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

  Emily Post

  Disappointment, Demand, Guests

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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