Bore

Famous quotes containing the word bore:

    “Good words by the third time will even bore the dogs.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
    All night’s fathomless wisdom come,
    That I had shorn my locks away
    And laid them on Love’s lettered tomb:
    But something bore them out of sight
    In a great tumult of the air.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)