A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
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...
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.