“If we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.”
(From Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by Wilfred Trotter, 1872 – 1939)
John Lentell
15th October, 1969
“Figures cannot lie but liars can figure.”
(Parkinson)
John Lentell
14th October, 1969
“A small time columnist gate-crashed a grand party given by one of America’s leading actresses. On leaving he gave her a damp hand and said, ‘Thanks for the swell party.’
‘That’s perfectly all right,’ said the actress, ‘Do remind me to invite you next time.'”
John Lentell
13th October, 1969
“Antique – something no one would be seen with if there were more of them.”
John Lentell
11th October, 1969
“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began;
So it is now when I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound to each by natural piety.”
(My heart leaps up when I behold by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
10th October, 1969
“Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”
(A youthful aphorism by Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)
John Lentell
9th October, 1969
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and etching every particle in its tissue.”
(Henry James, 1843 – 1916)
John Lentell
8th October, 1969
“England has certainly got rid of a good deal of its refuse through means of emigration……she has (also) been disembarrassed of a vast number of turbulent radicals and the like, men who are decidely able but by no means eminent, and whose zeal, self-confidence and irreverance far out-balance their other qualities.”
(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1991)
John Lentell
7th October, 1969
“Read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.”
(Sir Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626)
John Lentell
6th October, 1969
“I would that one’s active life lasted for 100 years and that each day were twice as long.”
(From ‘Testament of Experience’ by Vera Brittain, 1893 – 1970)
John Lentell
5th October, 1969
“The freedom which is our goal is far more than the freedom of political independence, and far more than the freedom which is the doctrine of ‘one man, one vote’ would confer. It is freedom from want, freedom from ignorance, freedom from the brutal savagery of tribalism; freedom from superstition and witchcraft, freedom from intimidation; and the freedom of equality before the law.”
(Sir Roy Welensky, 1907 – 1991)
John Lentell
4th October, 1969
Lentell Soup 