The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
