Crisis and conflict seem to bring out the worst or best in a man.
John Lentell
19th January, 1969
Month: August 2010
Monday’s Piece
“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
(Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797)
John Lentell
18th January, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“The mules of politics: without pride of ancestry, or hope of posterity.”
(John O’Connor Power, 1846 – 1919)
John Lentell
17th January, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
(Thomas Huxley, 1825 – 1895)
John Lentell
16th Janury, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“…never yet
Was noble man but made made ignoble talk.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.”
(Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
15th January, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
(Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 – 1881)
John Lentell
14th January, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“By office boys for office boys.”
(Remark about the Daily Mail by Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury 1830 -1903)
John Lentell
13th January, 1969
