{"quotes":[{"text":"Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appetite","bad-news","believe-in-yourself","bore","boring","excitement","failure","food","getting-along","go-on","let-go","let-it-go","never-give-up","optimism","sad","sadness","stigma","stigmatization","stop-and-think","trauma"],"id":40245,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amuse","amusement","barbarian","barbarism","bore","bored-boredom","civilization","civilized","complain","complaint","destination","entertain","entertainment","hurry","meditate","meditation","road-rage","stress","stress-free","stress-management","stress-relief","stressed","stressful","suffer","suffering","traffic","traffic-jam"],"id":56037,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.’ ‘Why did she do that?’Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that’s not really the point of the story.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["alcohol","bore","drinking"],"id":66263,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","believe","bore","bored","boredom","boring","fellowship","friend","friends","friendship","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","time-pass","trust","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":66271,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["austerity","bore","boring","disappointment","expression","funny","grudge","hard","heartless","human-condition","humor","i-love-you","laughter","long-face","long-faced","love","pain","playful","sadism","serious-minded","serious-mindedness","seriousness","stone","worries"],"id":81583,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","bore","bored","boredom","boring","creative","creativity","different","eccentric","eccentricity","human","humans","innovation","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","life","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","unique","uniqueness","unusual","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":110389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. ","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bore","boredom","boring","conversation","converse","dictate","fear","meditate","meditation","phobia","ramble","ramblers","relax","relaxation","silence","talk","talking","unwind","walk","walker","walking","walks"],"id":145235,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["activity","bore","boredom","boring","contagious","cynic","cynical","cynicism","funny","humor","mediocrity","people","yawn","yawning"],"id":159568,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","bore","bored","boredom","boring","desperate","desperation","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","humor","humour","lone","loneliness","lonely","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":172734,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","blind","bore","bored","boredom","deep","dictum","dictums","disability","disabled","entertain","entertainment","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","hand","hands","higher-animal","higher-animals","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","insightful","interest","interested","interesting","lower-animal","lower-animals","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","see","seeing","sight","south-africa","south-african","thinking","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":214036,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}