I learned that even after a single day’s experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He’d have laid up enough memories never to be bored. (“The Stranger”)
Boredom - Boring Quotes
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.
Dullness has depth.
I sometimes say to myself: “Life is too short to be worth troubling about.” Yet if a bore calls on me, prevents me from going out or attending to my affairs, I lose patience and cannot endure it for half an hour.
There is nothing so pathetic as a bore who claims attention – and gets it.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
He’s a stick in the mud.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
All things are the worse for the wearing.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
