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Quotations on Boredom

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by Gian Vincenzo Gravina
(1664 - 1718)

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

by John Updike
(March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009)

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

by Dale Carnegie
(November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955)

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could n ...

by Ambrose Bierce
(June 24, 1842 - 1914)

Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

by Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970)

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

by Evelyn Waugh
(October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966)

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

by Henry Louis Mencken
(September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956)

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

by Henry A. Kissinger
(May 27, 1923 - )

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

by Voltaire
(November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778)

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.



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