Boon Quotes
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Boon Quotes & Sayings
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
— Marcus Aurelius
Death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
— Sappho
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
— Sophocles
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
— William Graham Sumner
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
— Joseph Auslander
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.
— James E. Talmage
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
— Steven Erikson
Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.
— Jane Bowles
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
— Dwight L. Moody
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
— J.K. Rowling
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.
— George W. Bush
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
— Herman Melville
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
— John Calvin
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
— Samuel Johnson
A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
— Elle Boon
And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.
— Ellsworth Huntington
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
— Carolyn Wells
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.
— Emily Dickinson
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
— Henry Fielding
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
— William Graham Sumner
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.
— Maya Angelou
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
— Yoko Ono
To die before one fears to die may be a boon.
— Emily Dickinson
The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
— David Byrne
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!
— Helen Maria Williams
I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
— Sara Sheridan
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
— Carly Fiorina
A hero isn't a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.
— Carlo Arellano
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
— Mary Roach
A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.
— Adhish Mazumder
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
— Garrison Keillor
It is difficult to establish where the effects of a boon end and the influence of a curse begins.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
— Melina Marchetta
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
we ace boon coons forever.
— Bernice L. McFadden
