Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
pain children real
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
society ingredients company
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
names self consciousness
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
resources thrown
It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
apples expectations way
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.
sarcasm mind irony
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
passion kissing heaven
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
passion mountain genuine
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
causes matrimony enterprising
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
love heart successful
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
love gay expression
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
talking wells depends
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
evening action muse
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
followers example reason
Example has far more followers than reason.