black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

Related Topics

Backward Giving Pacidity Soon Stagnation Stron Strong Tide

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
AGNES REPPLIER

Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
AGNES REPPLIER

Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIER

End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
AGNES REPPLIER

Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
AGNES REPPLIER

Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIER

Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
AGNES REPPLIER

Break Carefully Easy Education Enjoyable Fostered Schoolwork Teaching Theory
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIER

Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIER

Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIER

Existence Happiness Happy Ourselves Possible Women
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIER

No Temptation Virtue
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIER

Capable Proof Thing
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
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save
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
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
AGNES REPPLIER

Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes