Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship. Agnes Repplier More Quotes by Agnes Repplier More Quotes From Agnes Repplier The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. Agnes Repplier interest relation common The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. Agnes Repplier tourists memorable inspirational 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 self men life Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. Agnes Repplier political party change A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. Agnes Repplier rushing mad cat There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania. Agnes Repplier enjoyable thorough world the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors. Agnes Repplier theater actors littles We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. Agnes Repplier vistas intelligent conversation By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness. Agnes Repplier parent reading children There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient. Agnes Repplier heart men book No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. Agnes Repplier quality community cities Humor brings insight and tolerance. Agnes Repplier ironic tolerance events Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept. Agnes Repplier mars earth may In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. Agnes Repplier delight diaries men Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies. Agnes Repplier cat sky sleep To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Agnes Repplier fate brave wise Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. Agnes Repplier mediocrity names giving There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth. Agnes Repplier sweetness-of-life steps people It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. Agnes Repplier france habit mind It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it. Agnes Repplier always-trying friendship giving
