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?
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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.
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.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
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.
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.