"BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything." - Don Marquis

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." - Henry Louis Mencken

"We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." - Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire, Sept discours en vers sur l'homme

"Society is now one polish'd horde,
Form'd of two mighty tribes, the
Bores
and
Bored"
- LORD BYRON, Don Juan

"For I have known them all already, known them all -
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
- T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

". . . the desire for desires - & boredom." - LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina

"One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore . . . and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." - JOHN UPDIKE, Assorted Prose