Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear,… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
