There is absolutely no truth in the rumour going around Salisbury that ‘you know who’ is going to be taken over by ‘you know who’!
John Lentell
14th November, 1969
Month: June 2011
Thursday’s Piece
“”Do you know who made you?” Nobody, as I knows on,” said the child, with a short laugh…..”I ‘spect I grow’d””
(Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 – 1896)
John Lentell
13th November, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have only been a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
(Sir Isaac Newton, 1643 – 1727)
John Lentell
12th November, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Minds like ours, my dear James, must always be above national prejudices, and in all companies it gives me true pleasure to declare, that, as a people, the English are very little indeed inferior to the Scotch.”
(Christopher North, 1785 – 1854)
John Lentell
11th November, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
10th November, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.”
(Samuel Coleridge, 1772 – 1834)
John Lentell
9th November, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“George Bernard Shaw’s play required a large cast, but was not an outstanding success. Mrs. Campbell was peering at the audience through a peep-hole in the curtain on the third night when Shaw asked, ‘How are we doing?’
‘Better than last night,’ she answered, ‘but we are still in the majority.'”
John Lentell
8th November, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“There is no emotion in a human creature purer or sweeter than the hidden feeling that awakens to life unawares in the heart of a maiden to fill the emptiness of her breast with enchanting melodies and make her days like the poets’s dream and her nights like the prophet’s vision.”
(From Spirits Rebllious by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
John Lentell
7th November, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882)
John Lentell
6th November, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
(Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 – 1832)
John Lentell
5th November, 1969
Lentell Soup 