black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

Related Topics

Cities Community Distinctive Possess Quality

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
AGNES REPPLIER

Animosity Graft Greed Incapacity Nothing Party Political
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIER

Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
AGNES REPPLIER

Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
AGNES REPPLIER

Brother Check Children Education Erudition Female Speed Stony
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
AGNES REPPLIER

Affect Depravity General Human Intelligence Lack Race
Economics and ethics have little in common.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Economic Ethic Little
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIER

Anything Catchword Faith Necessity People Pin Understanding
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIER

Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
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
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
AGNES REPPLIER

Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIER

Incomprehensive Joke Nothing World
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER

Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIER

Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable
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
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
AGNES REPPLIER

Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes