Agnes Repplier

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.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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 easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.