Searching for 'bore' quotes
| Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying. |
| by Mason Cooley |
| Never ask a bore a question. |
| by Mason Cooley |
| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. |
| by Voltaire |
| Good words by the third time will even bore the dogs. |
| by Chinese Proverb |
| Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Its a sad truth that everyone is a bore to someone. |
| by Llewellyn Miller |
| We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| 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 |
| If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to benot understood, but divined. |
| by Remy De Gourmont |
| Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. |
| by C.S. Lewis |
| Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. |
| by Don Marquis |
| 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 |
| People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. |
| by Ezra Pound |
| If parents would only realize how they bore their children! |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. |
| by Bert Leston Taylor |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Im past that age. |
| by Katherine Hepburn |
| 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 |
| 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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