Author Topic: ~ Boring Days Quotes ~  (Read 3774 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Boring Days Quotes ~
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2016, 03:47:03 PM »
[highlight-text]Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2016, 03:47:31 PM »
[highlight-text]Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy

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« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2016, 03:47:58 PM »
[highlight-text]We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

La Rochefoucauld

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2016, 03:48:24 PM »
[highlight-text]Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

Cynthia Propper Seton

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« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2016, 03:48:49 PM »
[highlight-text]Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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« Reply #35 on: March 22, 2016, 03:49:16 PM »
[highlight-text]Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2016, 03:49:43 PM »
[highlight-text]When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Eric Hoffer

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2016, 03:50:08 PM »
[highlight-text]Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2016, 03:50:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2016, 03:51:03 PM »
[highlight-text]The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

Theodore Haecker

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2016, 03:53:29 PM »
[highlight-text]As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

John Jay Chapman

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2016, 03:53:59 PM »
[highlight-text]That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Euripides

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« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2016, 03:54:27 PM »
[highlight-text]Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Ralph Inge

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2016, 03:54:53 PM »
[highlight-text]Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

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« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2016, 03:55:22 PM »
[highlight-text]The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

William Ralph Inge