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.
Boredom - Boring Quotes
The people who are aware of themselves are henceforward independent; and they are never bored, and life is only too short, and they are steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labor to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff; Since I myself have done no less and – sometimes pulled it off! Yea, as we are and we are not, […]
Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
The speaker bores you, gentlemen? He’s also boring me. But praise him when he’s thru – He comes to us for free!
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Only one person in a thousand is a bore and he is interesting because he is one person in a thousand.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Plato was a bore.
