Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce Boredom You May Also Like Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. By Anatole France Boredom, Deception, Lies She has the reputation of being outspoken—by no one. By Jack Paar Boredom A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. By Laurence J. Peter Boredom A man who lets himself be bored is ever more contemptible than the bore. By Samuel Butler Boredom The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. By Voltaire Boredom The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. By H. L. Mencken Boredom, Funny, Life, Sarcastic You May Also Like from Ambrose Bierce The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. By Ambrose Bierce Business, Funny, Gambling Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. By Ambrose Bierce Corporation, Profit, Responsibility Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. By Ambrose Bierce Beauty
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. By Anatole France Boredom, Deception, Lies
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. By Laurence J. Peter Boredom
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. By H. L. Mencken Boredom, Funny, Life, Sarcastic
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. By Ambrose Bierce Business, Funny, Gambling
Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic
Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. By Ambrose Bierce Corporation, Profit, Responsibility
Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money
