Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Successful
Point
Success
Work
Mind
Like
Concentration
Minds
Single
More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
Christian Nestell Bovee
