“They have such refined an delicate palates
That they can discover no one worthy of their ballots,
And then when someone terrible gets elected
They say, There, that’s just what I expected!”
(Ogden Nash, 1902 – 1971)
John Lentell
23rd May, 1969
Month: December 2010
Thursday’s Piece
“Del dicho al hecho hay un gran trecho.”
(It’s a far cry from speech to deed.)
(Miguel de Cervantes, 1574 – 1616)
John Lentell
22nd May, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“It is very difficult to divorce the Head of the Executive in any country from the chief responsibility for the conduct of the war……”
(Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)
John Lentell
21st May, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
The outcome of UDI is not what we were told it would be (by the Prime Minister). What went wrong?
John Lentell
20th May, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“I always voted at my party’s call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”
(William Gilbert, 1836 – 1911)
John Lentell
19th May, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
From the depth of my soul I love the sea.
From the depth of the sea comes my soul.
John Lentell
18th May, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Lest thou thy love and hate and me undo,
To let me live, O love and hate me too.”
(John Donne, 1572 – 1631)
John Lentell
17th May, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?”
(Joseph Butler, 1692 – 1752)
John Lentell
16th May, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“……… fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit…..”
(John Dryden, 1631 – 1700)
John Lentell
14th May, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but
The truth in masquerade.”
(Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824)
John Lentell
14th May, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“I had noticed ……. how carefully Sir Edward Grey lied in order to prevent the public from knowing ……. I naively imagined that when the public discovered how he had lied to them, they would be annoyed; instead of which, they were grateful to him for having spared them the moral responsibility.”
(From The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970)
John Lentell
13th May, 1969
Monday’s Piece
A clerk in a London town hall was going through a pile of forms that had been sent in.
In the part marked “Do not write in this space”, one householder had written: “I protest against this infringement of personal liberty – please note I shall write where I jolly well please.”
John Lentell
12th May, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”
(From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
John Lentell
11th May, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
According to the Swedish Sales and Publicity Association, advertisements printed on the left-hand pages of newspapers and periodicals have a bigger pulling power than those on the right-hand side.
John Lentell
10th May, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“Be calm in arguing, for fierceness makes
Error a fault and truth discourtesy.”
(George Herbert, 1593 – 1633)
John Lentell
8th May, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.”
(a Href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift”>Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745)
John Lentell
7th May, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“My wife has a slight impediment in her speech” says comedian Jimmy Durante. “Every now and then she stops to breathe.”
(Thomas K. Griffin in The New Orleans Item)
John Lentell
6th May, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“WATER-WAGON – A vehicle from which a man frequently dismounts to boast of the fine ride he’s having.”
(Cynic’s Dictionary – 1905)
John Lentell
5th May, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“What clearly is in train, however, is a rapid trend towards the exaltation of the executive (both cabinet ministers and civil servants) at the expense of the House of Commons.”
(The Economist, 1960)
John Lentell
9th May, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love,
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.”
(From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
John Lentell
4th May, 1969
Lentell Soup 