Quotes By Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier