Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity. Agnes Repplier More Quotes by Agnes Repplier More Quotes From Agnes Repplier Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. Agnes Repplier yield stronger years An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. Agnes Repplier wasps passion political People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier civilization people way When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. Agnes Repplier draught milk kindness Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate. Agnes Repplier fate pain men Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism. Agnes Repplier vices half responsibility The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over. Agnes Repplier would-be complaining travel Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret? Agnes Repplier regret pain years It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. Agnes Repplier bad-taste taste enough A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas. Agnes Repplier inspirational men ideas Wit is a thing capable of proof. Agnes Repplier wit proof capable If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side. Agnes Repplier demand church sides The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. Agnes Repplier clear perception world The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. Agnes Repplier dear one-direction heart The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. Agnes Repplier permit england thinking Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. Agnes Repplier laughter spring happiness Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. Agnes Repplier doe facts art The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. Agnes Repplier indifference views doe If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety. Agnes Repplier tides strong giving It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. Agnes Repplier intelligence depravity race
