Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Boredom - Boring Quotes
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he wrote it. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves.
Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read.
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.
