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.

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

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

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

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.

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