A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

What things are sure this side of paradise: Death, taxes, and the counsel of the bore. Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend, Bores we have with us even to the end.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.