Tiresome Quotes

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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. — Samuel Beckett
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell
What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same… — John Oliver Killens
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have… — Desiderius Erasmus
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel de Montaigne
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… — Katherine Anne Porter
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for… — Dominic Savio
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in… — Stephen Batchelor
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth,… — Joe Abercrombie
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. — William Graham Sumner
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order… — William Graham Sumner
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make… — Mark Steyn
Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without… — Nancy Lancaster
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes… — Polly Adler
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered. — Laozi

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