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• I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

  Peter Steele

  Thinking, Mind, Courses

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• I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fake People, Knee Injuries, Want

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• He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Sarcastic, Graves

  In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

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• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Beautiful, Play, Bores You

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Boredom, Deep Thought

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Bores You, Dragons

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• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Clever

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4400, Delphi Classics

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• I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Want, Praying

  Interview with Merv Griffin. "Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles". Book by Frank Brady, Charles Scribner's Sons edition, p. 576, 1989.

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• Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

  Moss Hart

  Men, Unhappy, Female

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Barry Sheene

  Doe, Endless, Motorbike

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Boring, Amusing

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

  Jonathan Davis

  Song, Real, Kids

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• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Way, Fit

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Want, Hong Kong

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• If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Understanding, Secret, Enough

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

  Zig Ziglar

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Grateful

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, People, Kind

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• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Bored, Feelings, Satisfied

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

  Moliere

  Interesting, Vices, Virtue

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