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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

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. — Ben Harper

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

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

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. — C.S. Lewis

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

Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't ever let the Man get to you. — Sophia Amoruso

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

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

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

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people. — Margot Asquith

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

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. — Drake

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

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

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore — Gianfranco Fini

He was not only a bore; he bored for England. — Malcolm Muggeridge

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that. — Walter Martin

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

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

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

The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations — Thomas Hood

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

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. — John Cheever

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death. — Assata Shakur

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

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

Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, — William Golding

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk. — Derf

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

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

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees — Kishore Kumar

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country. — Mark Steyn

I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it. — Mary Quant