Quote

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Contented
Marriage
Causes
Less
Making
Often
Enterprising
Matrimony

More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Image
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
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
Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
Christian Nestell Bovee