Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it…

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

— Joan Collins

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

— Thomas Paine

Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a…

— Anonymous

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

— Neil Lowe

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,…

— Roger Angell

“Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or…

— Isabella Irini Poretsis

Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!

— Matt Mullenweg

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

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to…

— Thomas Jefferson

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids…

— John Mason Brown

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to…

— Suzanne Collins

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know…

— Keri Hulme

It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should…

— Alexander Hamilton