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Mason Cooley:Faith of the bore: everything is


Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
by Mason Cooley


Mason Cooley:Never ask a bore a question.


Never ask a bore a question.
by Mason Cooley


Voltaire:The secret of being a bore is to tell


The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
by Voltaire


Chinese Proverb:Good words by the third time


Good words by the third time will even bore the dogs.
by Chinese Proverb


Ralph Waldo Emerson:Every hero becomes a bore at


Every hero becomes a bore at last.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Llewellyn Miller:It’s a sad truth that everyone


It’s a sad truth that everyone is a bore to someone.
by Llewellyn Miller


François La Rochefoucauld:We often forgive those


We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
by François La Rochefoucauld


Vita Sackville-West:Travel is the most private


Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
by Vita Sackville-West


Remy De Gourmont:If the secret of being a bore


If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.
by Remy De Gourmont


C.S. Lewis:It’s so much easier to pray for a


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


Don Marquis:Bores bore each other too; but it


Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
by Don Marquis


H.L. Mencken:The basic fact about human


The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
by H.L. Mencken


Ezra Pound:People find ideas a bore because they


People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
by Ezra Pound


George Bernard Shaw:If parents would only


If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
by George Bernard Shaw


Bert Leston Taylor:A bore is a man who, when you


A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
by Bert Leston Taylor


Oscar Wilde:I suppose society is wonderfully


I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
by Oscar Wilde


Elsa Maxwell:A bore is a vacuum cleaner of


A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
by Elsa Maxwell


Katherine Hepburn:Dressing up is a bore. At a


Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
by Katherine Hepburn


Bret Harte:And I hear from the outgoing ship in


And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
by Bret Harte


Frank Pittman:Family lore can be a bore, but


Family lore can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it on for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.
by Frank Pittman


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