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| Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina |
| Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. ~ Jules Renard |
| We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn’t a bore to somebody. ~ J.A. Spender |
| There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~ James Russell Lowell |
| One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore… and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. ~ John Updike, |
| Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ~ Frank Moore Colby |
| Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ~ Gerald Brenan |
| A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~ Bert Leston Taylor, |
| The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ~ William Dean Howells |
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| Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ~ Don Marquis |
| The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ~ Maria Edgeworth, |
| We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. ~ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, |
| Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ~ Lemony Snicket |
| A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~ Henry Ford |
| Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he won’t let you stop listening. ~ Author Unknown |