"The capacity of human beings to bore..." - Quote by H L Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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“The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.”
“Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn”
“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”
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“For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.”
“Why should the imagination of a manLong past his prime remember things that areEmblematical of love and war?”
“Necessity is our quickest excuse.”
More on Boredom
“I'm so bored with it all.”
“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”
“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”