Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
Necessity knows no Sunday.
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
Economics and ethics have little in common.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
We have opened our doors to unrestricted immigration, partly because capitalists want plenty of cheap labor, which is not a good reason; and partly because the immigrants want to come, which is not a sufficient reason.
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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 was an American essayist.
