85 Boon Quotes
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Famous Boon Quotes
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. — Seneca The Elder
Fortune befriends the bold. — John Dryden
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. — Yiddish Proverbs
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. — Thomas Fuller
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. — Moliere
The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend. — Mercy Otis Warren
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. — Proverbs
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. — Thomas A. Edison
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard De Bury
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. — William Hazlitt
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris — Thucydides
Much effort, much prosperity. — Euripides
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. — Philip Wylie
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian
Short Boon Quotes
- I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. — Dean Martin
- To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all. — Sophocles
- Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho
- To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — Marcus Aurelius
- The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. — J. K. Rowling
- Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert
- Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. — Yoko Ono
- I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. — Sal Mineo
- It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. — William Graham Sumner
- Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville
Daniel Boone Quotes
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. — Hubert H. Humphrey
When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes. — Stephen Vincent Benet
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. — Hubert Humphrey
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. — Douglas Brinkley
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. — Aldo Leopold
Boone Quotes
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. — Bhagat Singh
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master. — Alan Brennert
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
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties. — Dale Carnegie
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 boon you ask. — Dwight L. Moody
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 path out of poverty. — Diane Ravitch
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. — Carolyn Wells
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon. — John Greenleaf Whittier
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
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees; And birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings. — Frederick Tennyson
People Writing About Boon
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Seneca The Elder |
246 | 2313 |
 John Dryden |
483 | 1878 |
 Yiddish Proverbs |
143 | 2723 |
 Thomas Fuller |
175 | 2026 |
 Moliere |
214 | 1637 |
 Mercy Otis Warren |
32 | 314 |
More Boon Quotes
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 present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do. — Albert Einstein
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, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! — Jerry Brown
What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it. — Colleen Houck
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented. — Mark Twain
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 soul. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. — David Korten
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. — Nick Bostrom
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner
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
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness. — Michael Kimmelman
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
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 sneaks now. — Lynne Truss
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon. — Plato
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 supporters have always claimed it would be. — Robert M. Hutchins
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 - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!" — Edward Lear
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 terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. — Peter Gay
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles
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 the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon? — Peter Forsyth
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 would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality. — Garry Kasparov
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent. — Rod Serling
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