Tiresome Quotations

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Whether they choose to let pros prepare their taxes, or try the latest computer assistance, or go it alone with pen and calculator, Americans are paying a dear price in money and time because of our complex tax system. Recent tax relief laws have helped many taxpayers keep more of the money they've worked for all year, but the work of filing their federal returns at tax time has become a tiresome chore.

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

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

It gets a little tiresome to read articles from people who don't understand the situation and continue to pick on someone who is working so hard.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.

That is certainly an issue, but not the primary focus right now. This ongoing saga with Iraq has kind of grown tiresome and hasn't had a lot of significance.

The new concept for department stores and specialty stores has to be a smaller footprint, shopping carts, a 'spoke and wheel' layout where an inner circle leads to an outer circle instead of the tiresome grid layouts, and central checkout systems. Federated is making similar changes, by introducing a checkout counter for every seven departments within a store.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.""You tiresome man!"" cried Indolentio's wife,""You've grown indifferent to all in life.""""Indifferent?"" he drawled with a slow smile;""I would be, dear, but it is not worth while."" --Apuleius M. Gokul

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

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

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.