Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept. — Agnes Repplier Earth Copy Share Image
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier Laugh Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Burden Copy Share Image
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. — Agnes Repplier Education Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding… — Agnes Repplier Always trying Copy Share Image
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Analytics Copy Share Image
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. — Agnes Repplier Envy Copy Share Image
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier Funny Copy Share Image
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Character Copy Share Image
