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
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. – James Russell Lowell
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 So-Called Human Race
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
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 irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. – Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. – Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. – Jean Baudrillard
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. – Henry Ford
