black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Related Topics

Civilization Country Cricket Enjoyment Largely Rest Sport Tea

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
AGNES REPPLIER

Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Guardian Mirth Right Thinker World
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
AGNES REPPLIER

Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
Friendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIER

Friendship Take Time
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Belief Feminist Man Severed Suffering
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
AGNES REPPLIER

Advance Change Conservatism Function Party Political Resistance
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
AGNES REPPLIER

Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
AGNES REPPLIER

Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
AGNES REPPLIER

Happiness Laughter Lawless Nature Part Spring
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
AGNES REPPLIER

Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIER

Confidence Fellow Giving Men Striving Thinking Wisdom
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIER

Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIER

Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0