“Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?”— Alice Munro Related Quotes “Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.”— Kilroy J. Oldster “The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life?until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”— Peter Kreeft “To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoana