The pest of society is egotists.
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.
Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies. . . pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.