Boon Quotes

76 quotes by 70 authors

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family,… — Jerry Brown
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its… — Robert M. Hutchins
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — Marcus Aurelius
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all. — Sophocles
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world. — Maya Angelou
The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something,… — Anthony Lawlor
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of… — Peter Forsyth
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably… — Robert A. Heinlein
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would… — Plato
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… — William Wordsworth
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect — John Calvin
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in… — Swami Vivekananda
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly… — Phillip Lopate
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. — Murray Kempton
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From… — Pat Paulsen

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