Boredom(Related Subjects: Sleep)

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed) Someone's boring me. I think it's me. Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960) Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Saunders, last words A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718) The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger (1923 - ) A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965) The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964) Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4 [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922