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55 quotesThe penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Bores and Boredom
Lady Nancy Astor
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Bores and Boredom
Sir Cecil Beaton
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Bores and Boredom
John Berger
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]
Idleness
Bible
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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Bores and Boredom
Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Happiness
Josh Billings
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
Bores and Boredom
Lady Bloomfield
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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Airplane and Aviation
Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Gerald Brenan
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Society
Lord Byron
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Communication
Frank Moore Colby
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I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
Conversation
Edward Dahlberg
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Bores and Boredom
Guy Debord
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Bores and Boredom
Benjamin Disraeli
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Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
Bores and Boredom
Wayne Dyer
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Bores and Boredom
Henry Ford
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Lies and Lying
Anatole France
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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
Work
French Proverb
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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Bores and Boredom
Billy Graham
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Ambition
Angus Grossart
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Bores and Boredom
Eric Hoffer
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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Soren Kierkegaard
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Bores and Boredom
Henry Kissinger
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Bores and Boredom
Jean De La Bruyere
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun