Bane Quotes
83 quotes by 58 authors
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when…
— Joseph Hall
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization;…
— Chuck Baldwin
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace…
— Paul David Tripp
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Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.
— Jim DeRogatis
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I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me:…
— Joseph Addison
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Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
— Thomas Jefferson
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural,…
— Julia Child
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Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than…
— Tam David-West
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