A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

Jonathan Swift

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Christian Nestell Bovee

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.

William Graham Sumner

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Jean-Francois de La Harpe

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Unknown

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

Hugh Grant

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

John Adams

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Jean Baudrillard

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Dennis Rodman

Every man has a wild beast within him.

Frederick the Great

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

Michael Lerner

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.