Quote

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
Biographer
Essayist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Nothing
Pet
Like
Stopping
Remarkable
Mad
Cat
Generally
Chiefly
Gets
Kitten
Whatever
Rushing

More quotes by Agnes Repplier

Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
Agnes Repplier
Image
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
Agnes Repplier
Image
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Agnes Repplier
Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
Agnes Repplier
Image
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
Agnes Repplier
Image
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
Agnes Repplier
Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
Agnes Repplier
Image
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes Repplier
Image
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier
Image
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.
Agnes Repplier
Image
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
Image
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
Agnes Repplier
Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Agnes Repplier