Boon Quote by W. S. Gilbert Download Open image “Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.” — W. S. Gilbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boon Death Ifs Inspirational Life Love
Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by — Fred Ebb Copy Share Image
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken 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 where you… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho 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 us--not to… — Aristophanes 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 to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 are all… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation. — Woodrow Wilson 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 and papers… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image