Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
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 defe...
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
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