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
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press. — Vivian Schiller Copy Share Image
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute--… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I… — Richard Kinder Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
