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Bore quotes (31)

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.
Mahatma Gandhi   Category: Bore

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer   Category: Bore

Any speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
Louis Nizer   Category: Bore

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson   Category: Bore

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
Henry Louis Mencken   Category: Bore

She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal cords would not fix.
Lisa Alther   Category: Bore

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard David Bach   Category: Bore

Whats wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
George Herbert Walker Bush   Category: Bore

No one really listens to anyone else and if you try it for a while youll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin   Category: Bore

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell   Category: Bore

There is nothing so easy as to revenge an offence; But nothing is so honorable as to pardon it.
Akhenaton   Category: Bore

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr   Category: Bore

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Malcolm S. Forbes   Category: Bore

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Francois Voltaire   Category: Bore

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.
Heraclitus   Category: Bore

I like boring things.
Andy Warhol   Category: Bore

One must choose in life between boredom and torment.
Madame Anne Louise Germaine de StaĆ«l   Category: Bore

Bore: n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce   Category: Bore

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.
Renata Adler   Category: Bore

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible
Frank Moore Colby   Category: Bore

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Parkinson   Category: Bore

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche   Category: Bore

Boredom after all is a form of criticism.
William Phillips   Category: Bore

A bore is someone who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Unknown   Category: Bore

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh   Category: Bore

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde   Category: Bore

Bore: a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina   Category: Bore

Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich   Category: Bore

Hes a stick in the mud.
Proverb   Category: Bore

A bore is a man who when asked how he is tells you.
Bert Taylor   Category: Bore

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think its their fault.
Henry Alfred Kissinger   Category: Bore