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Tenacity bores failure.Seun Ayilara
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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
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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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He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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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
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We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.William Hazlitt
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.William Dean Howells
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.Gian Vincenzo Cravina
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A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.Bert Leston Taylor
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The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.Charles Caleb Colton
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The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.JacquesBinigne Bossuet
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He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.Sydney Smith
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O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.Ethel Watts Mumford
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The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.Norman Cousins
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The devil's name is dullness.Robert E. Lee
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.H. L. Mencken
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His shortcoming is his long staying.Lewis L. Lewisohn
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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
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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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Dullness is a misdemeanour.Ethel Wilson
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When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.Eric Hoffer
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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.Jean Paul Richter
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We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.La Rochefoucauld
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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.Goethe
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.Anton Chekhov
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.Voltaire
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Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.Bruce Herschensohn
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Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.George Eliot
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Boredom is rage spread thin.Paul Tillich
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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
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Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.Ambrose Bierce
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Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.Lord Byron
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He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"J. G. Saxe