Boon Quotes

76 quotes by 70 authors

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in… — Ezra Taft Benson
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the… — Dwight L. Moody
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years… — Carolyn Wells
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a… — Mark Twain
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the… — Albert Einstein
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and,… — David Mamet
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep — Garrison Keillor
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. — William Graham Sumner
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for… — Mitt Romney
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. — Joseph Auslander
President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth… — Jon Stewart
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a… — Diane Ravitch
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years;… — Joe Queenan
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as… — Michael Faraday
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream -… — Edward Lear
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a… — Peter Gay

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