Pests Quotes

• How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

  Lorenz Hart

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• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Guests, Firsts

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• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Motivational, Want

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• Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

  Michael Pollan

  Disease, Way, Farmers

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

  Alan Chadwick

  Men, Balance, Way

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• Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Leeches

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

  Aldo Leopold

  Race, Technique, Emergence

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.269, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Persistance, Said, Situation

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.213, MIRA

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• The pest of society is egotists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Egotism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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• Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

  Helen Fisher

  Alive, Menace, Rejected

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• Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Universal, Knows

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• The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

  Isabel Paterson

  People, Wish, Important

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Hands, Cameras

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• For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Powerful, Army

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• My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world-seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Thinking, Vision

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.18, Souvenir Press

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

  Oliver Herford

  Doe, Persons, Encyclopedia

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• I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Determination, Commitment, Thinking

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

  Henry Miller

  Psychosis, Silence, Fans

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• With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

  Victor Hugo

  Weed, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

  Randolph Bedford

  Dirty, Animal, Australia

  Randolph Bedford (1976). “Naught to thirty-three”, Melbourne University

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• No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But the classification "pest" is our own, and a rabbit that is a pest is as capable of suffering, and as deserving of consideration, as a white rabbit who is a beloved companion animal.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, White, Suffering

  Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.212, Random House

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• We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

  Fisher Ames

  Heart, Soul, Liberty

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property and the happiness of society, considered, by an American [F. Ames], to which is prefixed, an introduction by H. Ewbank”, p.197

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