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 | "A bore is a man who when asked how he is, tells you." | |
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Bert Taylor
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| "A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we
have enlightened him with ours." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." | |
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Unknown
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| "Any speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop
boring." | |
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Louis Nizer
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| "Bore: a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with
company." | |
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Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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| "Bore: n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Boredom is rage spread thin." | |
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Paul Tillich
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| "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." | |
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William Phillips
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| "Every hero becomes a bore at last." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Every improvement in communication makes the bore more
terrible" | |
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Frank Moore Colby
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| "He"s a stick in the mud." | |
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Proverb
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| "I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest
flights of art." | |
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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| "I like boring things." | |
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Andy Warhol
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| "Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a
lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great
preoccupations in our time." | |
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Renata Adler
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| "In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is
not always an easy sacrifice." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore
ourselves?" | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in
which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating
and life?giving." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while
you"ll see why." | |
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| "One must choose in life between boredom and torment." | |
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Madame Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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| "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." | |
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Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
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| "She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of
the vocal cords would not fix." | |
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Lisa Alther
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| "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly
greater than that of any other animal." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and
deepening sense of boredom." | |
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Cyril Parkinson
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| "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for
curiosity." | |
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Ellen Parr
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| "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people,
they think it"s their fault." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so
completely that he loses all possible interest in life." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "There is nothing so easy as to revenge an offence; But nothing is so
honorable as to pardon it." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be
controlled by rather than to control what you do." | |
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Heraclitus
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| "What"s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?" | |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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