Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#life

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

#alert #banish #cats #complaisance #discriminating

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#adam #because #been #between #conversation

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#distorts #earthly #false #gods #laughed

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#about #before #chiefly #generally #gets

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#civilization #decencies #luxuries #said #spring

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #laugh #love #never #really

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#edged #handle #hurt #infrequently #much

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#easy #elsewhere #find #ourselves #possible