Tedious Quotes - Page 4

• Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

  William Wordsworth

  Feelings, Doe

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3795, Delphi Classics

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• There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Dumb, Criticism

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• Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

  Abbi Glines

  Fun, Trouble, Boring

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.10, Abbi Glines

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• Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Errors, Bored, Programmers

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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• Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Halloween, Home

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• Mr. Herschel... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Wish, Computer

  Charles Babbage's remarks in November 1839, recalling events in 1821; as quoted in Harry Wilmot Buxton and Anthony Hyman "Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage", 1988.

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• But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

  John Milton

  Song, Time, Blessed

  1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Learning, Thinking, Numbers

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Live Life

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

  Eric Linklater

  Science, Acquisition, Routine

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• Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Sibling, Love You

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• Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Wings, Mind

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.9

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Eight

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

  J. D. Sedding

  Dream, Time, Believe

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• My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Enemy, Spiders

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547

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• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

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• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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• A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Character, Simple

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1977.

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.121, Wildside Press LLC

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• And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.

  Italo Svevo

  Fear, Museums, Light

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• Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

  Karl Marx

  Dream, Fear, Atheism

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• When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Common Sense, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

  Seneca the Younger

  Example, Good Examples

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• You are a tedious fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Fool

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.87, BookCaps Study Guides

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