Bane Quotes

• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Freedom, Mean, Army

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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• Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

  Robert Burns

  Society, Morality

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.124

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• Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Names, Alive

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.611, Harvard University Press

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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

  Franz Boas

  Civilization, Disease, Corny

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Thinking, Allies

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• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Pain, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Waiting

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1343, Manonmani Publishers

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• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Our Society, Society Today, Corny

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. President (1999-2007 : Obasanjo) (2007). “Standing tall 2”

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• O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

  George Sand

  Heart, Love Is, Antidote

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• Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

  Robert Burns

  Justice, Morality, Mercy

  Robert Burns (1802). “The Poetical Works of the Late Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life”, p.168

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• [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Data, Temptation, Form

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions

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• O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Love, Pain, Generosity

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• Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Mind, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.94, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• Tedium is the bane of immortality.

  Neil Lowe

  Crazy, Mad, Immortality

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• My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Life And Death, Antidote

  Henry Jones, Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, William Congreve (1776). “The Earl of Essex, a Tragedy”

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• Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

  Sean Penn

  Fall, Forever, Existence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, we often heard Islam in the form of a slogan: "Islam is the solution," but no one ever told me that Islam can be a burden... Very few Muslims write about Islam creatively because I don't think we're given permission to. I think that's the bane of modern Islam. It's been reduced to slogans.

  Haroon Moghul

  Growing Up, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.

  Susan Boyle

  Cake, Weight, Eating

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

  John Mason Brown

  Book, Kids, Home

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• 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

  Law, Tyrants, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

  Winston Smith

  Discourse, Attribution

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