Quote

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

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
Lost
Inspirational
May
Tourist
Without
Tourists
Would
Complain
Memorable
Complaining

More quotes by Agnes Repplier

Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
Image
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
Agnes Repplier
Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
Agnes Repplier
Image
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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
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
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes Repplier