The secret of being boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
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RICHARD GERE The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE The secret of being a bore is to tell everything
VOLTAIRE The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
VOLTAIRE How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
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REMY DE GOURMONT If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -no...
REMY DE GOURMONT The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
YASH CHOPRA After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
HENRY FORD The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every...
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HARVEY S. FIRESTONE The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
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SETH GODIN Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
WILMA MANKILLER Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring.
LAUREN OLIVER Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
RACHEL JOHNSON Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
SETH GODIN I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
N. B.: ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE Balance in everything is the secret to success.
JIM GENOVESE Everything is so boring, just like "human beings"!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW By logic, it's no longer a secret when you say "The secret of sth is....".
JALAL ERRAZI The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY The secret of getting things done is to act!
DANTE ALIGHIERI I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
BARRY HUMPHRIES The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
DARIO ARGENTO Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
THOM FILICIA Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
OSCAR WILDE Hard work is the secret of being a genius.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
JOHN BERRYMAN I have a fear of being boring.
CHRISTIAN BALE The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
OSCAR WILDE Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.
STEVEN JOHNSON The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
HENNY YOUNGMAN The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
MIKE MURDOCK To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
ANNA PAVLOVA Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
STEVEN TYLER The moment you say , , or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies b...
ESTHER HICKS Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to ever...
GRAHAM GREENE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to ...
GRAHAM GREENE I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.
NEIL GAIMAN To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Dreams become reality when passion and persistence meet
MANNY KHOSHBIN What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
GEORGE BUSH What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.
GEORGE BUSH What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
GERALD BRENAN The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to...
FAY WRAY The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.
BECKY ALBERTALLI The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along eve...
JOSEPH HELLER The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
DEBORAH WILES The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteres...
KEVIN J. ANDERSON Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determi...
DALE TURNER Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determi...
DALE E. TURNER The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept
ISAK DINESEN The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
A.W. TOZER One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
LEFTY GOMEZ I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
LUISE RAINER I think the secret is being needed and getting involved,
HELEN GIBSON Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
SUPERNA BATHEJA One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
TONY ROBBINS I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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