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All Quotes by author - Agnes Repplier
" A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. "
Pet
Nothing
Mad
" Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. "
Conversation
Talk
Difficult
" Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. "
Forever
Democracy
Sorry
" Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. "
Handle
Tools
Hurt
" Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. "
Tolerance
Understanding
Irony
" Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. "
False
Gods
Nothing
" It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. "
Said
Spring
Well
" It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. "
Force
Education
Mind
" 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. "
Friends
Impossible
Pet
" It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. "
Pleasure
He
Leisure
" It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. "
Find
Easy
Possible
" It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. "
Thought
Conversation
Us
" Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. "
Nature
Laughter
Our
" People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. "
Absurdity
Way
People
" The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. "
World
Sustain
Rule
" The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. "
Present
Save
Past
" There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. "
Truth
Naked
Few
" There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. "
Secret
Always
Cannot
" The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. "
Thinkers
Should
Rights
" The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. "
Lost
Without
Tourist
" We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. "
Love
Never
Relationship
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