Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.
I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
I'm not very good at being dull.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.