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
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
– 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
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
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
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
– Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
– Agnes Repplier
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
– Agnes Repplier
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
– Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
– Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.