We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.- Agnes Repplier
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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 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.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
