black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIER

Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable Fall Life Modern Publication Stress
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
AGNES REPPLIER

Age Always Ascertained Every Men Thinking
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Begging Church Complicated Confronted Demand Sides System
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIER

Absurdity Civilization Palpable People Way
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
AGNES REPPLIER

Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
AGNES REPPLIER

Choices Demand Education Enthusiasm Habitually Profound Reverence Teacher Unassailable
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
AGNES REPPLIER

Appreciation Dream Everybody Naturally Sentimental Thinking Universal Word
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
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
AGNES REPPLIER

Enough First Friend Friendship Palatable Truth
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
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
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes