"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice,…" — Voltaire
"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"
More Boredom Quotes
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
- No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams
- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
- For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life… — Joseph Brodsky
- I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
- The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
- I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so… — Warren Buffett
- In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs