1.
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
Sophocles
2.
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
Sappho
3.
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. Rowling
4.
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
W. S. Gilbert
6.
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
8.
The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.
George W. Bush
9.
When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
Mark Twain
10.
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
Carly Fiorina
11.
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
12.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Benjamin Disraeli
13.
Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.
Woodrow Wilson
14.
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.
Ellsworth Huntington