Tiresome Quotes

Tiresome Quote of the day

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They deserve that love, and in the end, it only fuels my energy.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

It really gets tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Barack Obama and the country. He's doing that on his own. We just chronicle it here.

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.