Quotes with bores

  • Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
  • A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
  • One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

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  • Voltaire All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Zig Ziglar 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
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Don Marquis Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Charles Dickens 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.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Anatole France One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Lord George Byron Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Babe Paley The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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