Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de¤  sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve¤  rifie¤  , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.18.

Life, friends, is boring.We must not say so.

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Dream Song No.14'.

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

Antiquite¤  . öen tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe"  tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche¤  d and boring.

-Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard et Pe¤  cuchet avec un choix des sce¤  narios, du Sottisier, L'Album de la Marquise et Le Dictionnaire des ide¤  es re c° ues. (published1881, translated by Geoffrey Wall,1994).

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Limbo,'Cynthia'.