Bore

Famous quotes containing the word bore:

“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)

“If parents would only realize how they bore their children!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)