Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous…

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

— Jilly Cooper

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to grow healthy,…

— Jane Shellenberger

The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of…

— Blase J. Cupich

A warm smile is testimony of a generous nature.

— Anonymous

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the…

— Honore de Balzac

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous…

— Washington Irving

Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case…

— Peter Forsyth

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all…

— Lynne Truss

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

— Jane Bowles

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to…

— Aristophanes

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

— Sappho

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

— H. L. Mencken