Agnes Repplier

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. "

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

"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 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. "

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. "

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. "

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. "