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
music clothes shelter
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
world population existence
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
beauty beautiful giving
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
life future lost
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
love passion kissing
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
life fear ignorance
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
love-yourself first-love love-is
Our first and last love is self-love.
inspirational motivational running
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
errors support bases
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
father philosophy doubt
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
fear
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
way generations passing
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
holiday play effort
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
holiday play effort
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.