black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIER

Know Necessity Sunday
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
AGNES REPPLIER

Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Children Helped Imagination Portion Read Really Scant Service Thinking Warm
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
AGNES REPPLIER

Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
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

Agitating Doe Indifference Pessimist Sedom Trouble View
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIER

Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Look Lying Offspring Possibly Print Trinket
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
AGNES REPPLIER

Discovered Life Men Political Tell Time Unpalatable Wrong
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
AGNES REPPLIER

Deal Infinite More Quality
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
AGNES REPPLIER

Abundant Asperity Edge Fusion Gayety Giving Jest Rough Sympathy Unracked
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
AGNES REPPLIER

Believe Feel FGod Good Grace Little Men Need Time
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIER

Accurately Cat Dog Expresses Mater Men Mutual Relation Sense Tem Word
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIER

Art Doe Fact Grapple Helpless Outright Sermon Theories
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIER

Harden Heart Humor Sanity
real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
AGNES REPPLIER

Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
AGNES REPPLIER

Candor Conscious Glasses Outlook Reading Tale Unconscious Vision

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes