Tenacity bores failure.
~ Seun Ayilara
Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.
~ Andy Heaton
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
~ John Updike
He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
~ La Rochefoucauld
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
~ William Hazlitt
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
~ William Dean Howells
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
~ Gian Vincenzo Cravina
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
~ Bert Leston Taylor
The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
~ Jacques-Binigne Bossuet
He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
~ Sydney Smith
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
~ Norman Cousins
The devil's name is dullness.
~ Robert E. Lee
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
~ H. L. Mencken
His shortcoming is his long staying.
~ Lewis L. Lewisohn
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
~ R. I. Fitzhenry
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
Dullness is a misdemeanour.
~ Ethel Wilson
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.
~ Eric Hoffer
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
~ Jean Paul Richter
We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
~ Goethe
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
~ Anton Chekhov
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
~ Voltaire
Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.
~ Bruce Herschensohn
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot
Boredom is rage spread thin.
~ Paul Tillich
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
~ Arthur Helps
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
~ Charles Dickens
