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A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.

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

Henry Ford

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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

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A yawn is a silent shout.

G. K. Chesterton

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

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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 never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

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Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

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

Bertrand Russell

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Susan Sontag

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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Jean Baudrillard

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Søren Kierkegaard

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Don Marquis

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

William Shakespeare

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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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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.

Charles Dickens

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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.

Søren Kierkegaard

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If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

John Berger

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Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Wayne Dyer

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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Blaise Pascal

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Billy Graham

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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Søren Kierkegaard

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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson

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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

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

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

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The devil's name is dullness.

Robert E. Lee

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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Henry Miller

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Henry Kissinger

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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de La Bruyère

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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go.

Georges Bernanos

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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Vance Havner

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Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Eric Hoffer

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You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

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A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.

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

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

A yawn is a silent shout.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

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 never be yours.

Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

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

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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.

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.

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

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

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

The devil's name is dullness.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

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

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.