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• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Sarcastic, Graves

  In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

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• I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Want, Praying

  Interview with Merv Griffin. "Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles". Book by Frank Brady, Charles Scribner's Sons edition, p. 576, 1989.

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• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Clever

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4400, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Understanding, Secret, Enough

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Boredom, Deep Thought

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  Barry Humphries

  School, Destiny, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Bores You, Dragons

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• 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.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Want, Hong Kong

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• The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

  Jonathan Davis

  Song, Real, Kids

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• I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

  Billy Wilder

  Cutting, Finals, Nine

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.

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• I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Beautiful, Play, Bores You

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• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

  Gerald Brenan

  Boredom, Oneself, Unimportant

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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Law, Found

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

  Mark Strand

  Engagement

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Bored, Feelings, Satisfied

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, People, Kind

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• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

  Zig Ziglar

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Grateful

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• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

  Moliere

  Interesting, Vices, Virtue

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