Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept. — Agnes Repplier
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until — Agnes Repplier
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends — Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false Gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. — 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
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible — Agnes Repplier
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. — Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier