Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
people black criticism
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
sorry reality achievement
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
pain regret years
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
thinking england permit
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
music boredom people
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
thinking feelings too-much
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
education language liberal-education
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
teacher too-much taught
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.