black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Related Topics

Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Man Savage Society
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
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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Sun Time Truth
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Custom Freedom Resistence
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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Activity Greatness Happiness
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Economy Poor Rich

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes