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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Patience, Years

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Prayer, Literature

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bores You, Bored

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• Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Reserves, Tedious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Bored, Boring, Being Bored

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• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Cemetery, Stills, Walking

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Desire, Enthusiasm

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1877.

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• Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

  Samuel West

  Book, Thinking, Lucky

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Acceptance

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• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Trying, Mediocrity, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Household papers and stories”

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• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  Barry Humphries

  School, Destiny, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Believe, Men

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• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

  Elvis Presley

  Bores You, Stories, Too Much

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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Law, Found

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• I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

  Mark Strand

  Engagement

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• I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

  Billy Wilder

  Cutting, Finals, Nine

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.

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• It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

  Peter Shaffer

  Strong, Tire, Extraordinary Things

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• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Weather, Climate

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Spiritual, War

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.131, Vintage

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• If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores You, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

  Gerald Brenan

  Boredom, Oneself, Unimportant

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