Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
money appreciate ability
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
money men long
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.
success mind gimlets
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
love rich week
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
love littles reason
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
love eye heart
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.
weapons causes logic
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
fighting imagination enemy
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
cunning boast
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
self morbid cures
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
beauty eye half
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
writing good-writing
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.