Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERThe friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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