“Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices et n’emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées.”
(Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.)
(Voltaire, 1694 – 1778)
John Lentell
29th January, 1969
“Let us consider the reason for the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
(John Powell)
John Lentell
28th January, 1969
“And that old common arbitrator, time,
Will one day end it.”
(William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
27th January, 1969
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
(George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
John Lentell
26th January, 1969
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
(Ralph Wardo Emerson, 1803 – 1882)
John Lentell
25th January, 1969
“For how can you compete,
Being honour bred, with one
Who, were it proved he lies,
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbours’ eyes?”
(Yeats, 1865 – 1939)
John Lentell
24th January, 1969
“He drew a circle that shut me out:
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!”
(From ‘The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems’ by Edwin Markham, 1852 – 1940)
John Lentell
23rd January, 1969
“That man’s the true Conservative
Who lops the moulder’d branch away.”
(Alfred Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
22nd January, 1969
Boo hoo! Nobody has sent either me or my wife a diary for 1969 and we are already getting our dates mixed up!
John Lentell
21st January, 1969
“A revolting woman simpered up to me and said, ‘I hear you are writing a book. Won’t you please bring me into it.’ To get rid of her, I promised I would. This paragraph shows that I keep my promises.”
(From ‘Go East, Old Man’ by Vernon Bartlett, 1894 – 1983)
John Lentell
20th January, 1969
Lentell Soup 