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
love heart successful
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
age weakness should
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
ambition ambitious kingdoms
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
beautiful power risk
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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.
leadership mistake character
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
men agents certain
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
virtue vicious virtuous
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
death loss heaven
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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.
men trouble earnest
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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.