Tiresome Quotes

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

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• The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Yesterday, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

  Voltaire

  Style, Kind

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• I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Too Much, Civility

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  Samuel Beckett

  Regret, Long, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.158, Grove Press

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• A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Running, Long, Degrees

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• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

  Robert Wyatt

  Records, Pressure, Come Up

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• Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, History, Vacant

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Attention, Firsts

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• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

  Maimonides

  Reality, Men, Able

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.296, Moses Maimonides

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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Forever, Understanding

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Humble, Thinking

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• Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wonder Woman, Saying Yes, Worn

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Regret, Companion

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Gift: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Happens, Ifs

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• However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

  John Quincy Adams

  Love Is, Voice, Self

  John Quincy Adams (1810). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University”, p.102

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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Relief, Littles

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• If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.

  Garry Winogrand

  Song, Believe, Wind

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Speech, Way, Beats

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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