Bore Quotes - page 2

"Life" in this "society" being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of "society" being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex. (Valerie Solanas)
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. View quote
William Hazlitt
I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere, - for I have had a little experience in that business, - that there is a desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country, - and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as the audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. View quote
Viktor Frankl
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children. View quote
Margaret Mead
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word-on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. (64). View quote
Epictetus
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer. View quote
Lucille Ball
Less is a bore. (Robert Venturi)
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
I smell fennel,” Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore. View quote
Donald Barthelme
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined. View quote
Remy de Gourmont
There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross. View quote
T. B. Joshua
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. View quote
Dylan Moran
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. View quote
Virginia Woolf
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. (William Blake)
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful - our own innocence. View quote
Pauline Kael
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him? View quote
Dwight L. Moody