bores

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"

Boredom is rage spread thin.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.