“If all the earth were paper white
And all the sea were ink
‘Twere not enough for me to write
As my poor heart doth think.”
(John Lyly, 1554 – 1606)
John Lentell
21st March, 1969
Month: October 2010
Friday’s Piece
“Women, then, are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good-sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together.”
(From Letters to His Son by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694 – 1773)
John Lentell
20th March, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”
(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)
John Lentell
19th March, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
In the Report of the Constitutional Commission 1968 appeared the following:
“We therefore recommend that the new constitution should contain a brief, factual preamble and, by a majority of four to one, that it should include an acknowledgement of the authority and guidance of Almighty God.” (Para 603)
One Commissioner thought that some would regard a reference to God in the Constitution as being out of place.
This is very interesting and it is perhaps astonishing that so little attention was focussed upon the questions arising. I believe in some sort of higher authority but I would not be so bold as to say that Almighty God is an indisputable fact!
John Lentell
18th March, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
A restaurant owner with plenty of advertising ideas and little money for advertising purchased the largest fish bowl he could find, filled it with water and put it in his window, with a sign reading:
“This bowl is filled with invisible Paraguayan goldfish.”
It required two policemen to keep the pavements in front of the window cleared.
John Lentell
17th March, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together”
(From The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, 1888 – 1965)
Gour Lentell
16th March, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft.”
Politics is not an exact science.
(Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898)
John Lentell
15th March, 1969
