Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#been #cannot #laugh #love #never

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#brings #deeper #friendly #insight #irony

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

#fabric #his #leisure #lives #man

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

#contact #conversation #currents #elation #enriches

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#lawless #nature #our #part #springs

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#rule #sustain #world

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#die #diseases #little #past #present

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#mirth #rights #should #thinkers #world

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#lost #may #other #them #tourist