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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
— Karl Kraus
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My mother bore no arms,
— Catherine M. Wilson
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
— Elvis Presley
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
— Steven Spielberg
Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare. — George MacDonald
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare. — George MacDonald
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
— David Hewson
and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children
— Catrin Collier
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
— Burton Raffel
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
— Edward Young
Oh ... It's too long a story. I never bore people I haven't know for at least a thousand years.
— J.D. Salinger
If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.
— Cassandra Clare
We'd all lived through our own horrors, and whether they showed on our skin or not, we all bore scars, didn't we?
— Madeline Sheehan
I'm a real bore.
— Eric Roberts
The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.
— Michael Lewis
If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
— George Bernard Shaw
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
— Leonard Susskind
His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.
— Victor Hugo
People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.
— Chelsea Handler
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.
— Mason Cooley
You bore ne rigid.
— Daniel Campbell
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
— Gail Carson Levine
If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.
— Charles Bukowski
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
— C.S. Lewis
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H.L. Mencken
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
— Loretta Chase
Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink. — Rachel Hawkins
you guessed it: pink. — Rachel Hawkins
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the TREE So that we might die to sin and live for righteousness By His wounds you have been healed
— Anonymous
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
— Gerald Brenan
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.
— Henry David Thoreau
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
— Henry David Thoreau
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
— Agatha Christie
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
— William Wordsworth
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
— John Dryden
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
— Oscar Wilde
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.
— Kevin Hearne
Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
— Jerry Hall
To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.
— Ana Monnar
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
— William Osler
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
— Robert Southey
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
— Oscar Wilde
Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
— Silvia Tennenbaum
Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town.
— Timothy Egan
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
— Maria Edgeworth
The worst sin is to bore.
— Oliver Wilde
Did he teach you how to bore you opponents to sleep? Because I think I missed that lesson - Allie
— Julie Kagawa
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe love bore fruit even more poisonous than fear.
— Cornelia Funke
Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis.
— Peter Watts
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
— Katharine Hepburn
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
— Ezra Pound
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.
— Anne Robinson
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
— Andy Hargreaves
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
— Sheila Heti
Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.
— Catherine M. Wilson
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
— Joe Strummer
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
— Frank Moore Colby
I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such a bore.
— Graham Greene
When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go. — Stephen King
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go. — Stephen King
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
— Evelyn Waugh
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
— Dylan Moran
Yes, that's the bore of comfort," said Lord Warburton. "We only know when we're uncomfortable.
— Henry James
Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least.
— Joseph O'Connor
When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.
— George Bernard Shaw
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.
— Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
She bore down upon him like a glittering siege engine.
— Terry Pratchett
The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon.
— George R R Martin
More is more and less is a bore.
— Iris Apfel
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
— Edna Ferber
Then she tried to bore herself to sleep by thinking about things like yogurt and the structure of a gas pedal.
— Jessica Park
Unlike you, I don't intentionally bore myself with tedious information,
— Lindsay Buroker
She was the radiant center of any circle she entered. And she bore the mark. It was visible to those who had eyes to see, a heart to feel.
— Don Bradley
They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.
— Brandon Sanderson