Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier
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
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
Agnes Repplier
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
Agnes Repplier
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
Agnes Repplier
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1950
Nationality:
American |
