“…….
Like all Man’s pleasures, when they first begin,
Tea was a mischief, and almost a sin.
Doctors, and clergy, turned their noses up –
‘A filthy custom’ was the Pekoe cup.
…….”
(From ‘Twinings – Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Tea and Coffee’ by A.P. Herbert)
John Lentell
7th January, 1970
“Only an insane type of mind can erect the state into a god and make of it a fetish to swallow up the individual’s right of thinking, feeling and the pursuit of happiness.”
(From The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976)
John Lentell
6th January 1970
“Let us overcome the angry man with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity, the liar with truth.”
John Lentell
5th January, 1970
“God respects me when I work,
but he loves me when I sing.”
(Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941)
John Lentell
4th January, 1970
“CONTENTMENT – Ambition gone to seed.”
(Cynic’s Dictionary – 1905)
John Lentell
3rd January, 1970
“What makes lonliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.”
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
1st January, 1970
“We know, and may guess something more, of why this marvellously gifted (Athenian) race declined. Social morality grew exceedingly lax, marriage became unfashionable and was avoided; many of the more ambitious and accomplished women were avowed courtesans, and consequently infertile….”
(From Hereditary Genius published in 1869 by by Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
31st December, 1969
“High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy”.
(Sir Philip Sidney, 1554 – 1586)
John Lentell
30th December, 1969
“Won’t you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.”
(Richard Sheridan – to a young lady, 1751 – 1816)
John Lentell
29th December, 1969
“In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance…”
(Sir Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626)
John Lentell
28th December, 1969
“I loved thee once, I’ll love no more,
Thine be the grief, as is the blame,
Thou art not what thou wast before,
What reason I should be the same?”
(‘To An Inconstant Mistress‘ by Sir Robert Aytoun, 1570 – 1638)
John Lentell
27th December, 1969
“Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics than these words – noble, the grand style.
……I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”
(Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888)
John Lentell
25th December, 1969
“All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know:
Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm;
Endless extinction of unhappy hate.”
(Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888)
John Lentell
24th December, 1969
“The average standard of the Lowland Scotch and the English north-country man is decidedly a fraction of a grade superior to that of the ordinary English, because the number of the former who attain to eminence is far greater than the proportionate number of their race would have led us to expect.”
(From Hereditary Genius published in 1869 by by Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
23rd December, 1969
“At all events, I must have some consciousness of being somewhere near right; I must have some stadnard of principle fixed within myself.”
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865)
John Lentell
22nd December, 1969
“God offers to every man the choices between truth and repose. Take which you will, you can never have both.”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882)
John Lentell
22nd December, 1969
Resolution can be as irrational as appetite.
John Lentell
20th December, 1969
“Law has nothing to do with the will of the executive.”
(Quintin Hogg – Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 1907 – 2001)
John Lentell
19th December, 1969
“Today’s consumer is better educated than his forbears and thus less willing to accept the exaggerated salesmanship, misleading advertising, shoddy goods and even bits of deceit that buyers once considered natural hazards of commerce.”
(TIME magazine, 12/12/69)
John Lentell
17th December, 1969
“Law is the name we give to the rights we admit for others.”
(Quintin Hogg – Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 1907 – 2001)
John Lentell
16th December, 1969
Lentell Soup 