The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.… — Michael Kimmelman 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
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from… — Pat Paulsen 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
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it… — Horace Copy Share Image
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a… — Diane Ravitch 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
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate 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
The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in… — William Wordsworth 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
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half… — Martial Copy Share Image
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back… — Edward Lear 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
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
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the… — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse… — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 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
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep… — Margaret Caroline Anderson 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
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday 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
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler 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
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moon Enjoys the open blossoms as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
