Pastoral Resources

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.