People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. Agnes Repplier More Quotes by Agnes Repplier More Quotes From Agnes Repplier Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. Agnes Repplier next criticism joy Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation. Agnes Repplier fate effort humor The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned. Agnes Repplier teaching easy education Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. Agnes Repplier illuminating innovation committed Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused. Agnes Repplier laughter serious reason History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier morality interest history 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. Agnes Repplier elation currents women Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity. Agnes Repplier sanity humor heart Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. Agnes Repplier risk tools hurt Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. Agnes Repplier generosity writing men The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. Agnes Repplier universality customs pledge History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised. Agnes Repplier may history facts The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. Agnes Repplier vanity cat men Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. Agnes Repplier leisure delight guests People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations. Agnes Repplier sacred talking people The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller. Agnes Repplier infancy storytelling voice The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts. Agnes Repplier circles cat secret Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. Agnes Repplier laughter heart spring Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. Agnes Repplier We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier
