black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Related Topics

Instrument Man Music Play

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Better Development Law Progress Society
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Activity One Liner Sadness
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Doubt Willing Yourself
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Education Institution Rare
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Man Savage Society
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Future Lost Remain
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Beautiful Himself See Sight

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0