“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”

“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”

“One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…”

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”

“Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.”