Christian Nestell Bovee
Quotes by 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
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
— 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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
— 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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
— 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
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
— Christian Nestell Bovee