Bores Quotes - Page 29

• It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

  Epictetus

  Insulting, Firsts, Characteristics

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.64, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Determination, Long, Goes On

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• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boredom, Humanity, Quality

  1905 Heretics, ch.3.

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• I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.

  LL Cool J

  Horny, Making Love, Kind

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• Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

  Marvin Gaye

  Family, Mother, Father

  Song: God Is Love, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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• The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

  Michael Lewis

  Football, Business, Nfl

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• I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

  Celia Imrie

  Knowing, People, Toil

  Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Good Friend, Fascination, Reputation

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