Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

About Christian Nestell Bovee:

Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York writer.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nestell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Author Bio

  • NameChristian Nestell Bovee
  • BornFebruary 22, 1820
  • DiedJanuary 18, 1904