“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
(John Stuart Mill, 1806 – 1873)
John Lentell
30th May, 1970
Month: November 2011
Thursday’s Piece
“Modesty has ruined more kidneys than bad liquor.”
(Dr S. Morris)
John Lentell
Wednesday’s Piece
“If I had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment…and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.”
(Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
27th May, 1970
Tuesday’ Piece
“Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only….with the idea God has of you.”
(Miguel de Unamuno, 1864 – 1937)
John Lentell
26th May, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“I don’t think women are really capable of great tenderness. We despise weakness and so harry it, and one needs great strength and great confidence for tenderness – women are seldom as confident as all that.”
(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)
John Lentell
25th May, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“The Manu moral code which governs the lives of 250,000 Hindus condones lying only when saving a life and when paying a compliment to a woman.”
John Lentell
23rd May, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“Ira furor brevis est”
(Anger is a short madness)
(Horace, 65 BC – 8 BC)
John Lentell
22nd May, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“In today’s world they (journalists) are….. unfailingly accurate in their presentation of truth…..” !!!
(L.E.A. Slater, Chairman and Managing Director, Argus Printing & Publishing Company)
John Lentell
21st May, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“I, with many a fear
For my dear country, many heartfelt sighs,
‘Mongst men who do not love her, linger here.”
(William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
20th May, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Esto peccator et pecca fortiter, sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo.”
(Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.)
(Martin Luther, 1483, 1546)
John Lentell
19th May, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men”
(William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
18th May, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“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
17th May, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“I despite myself admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.”
((Mark Twain of Cecil Rhodes)
John Lentell
16th May, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne.”
(James Lowell, 1819 – 1891)
John Lentell
15th May, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify.”
(William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
4th May, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“Under normal circumstances, in their natural habitats, wild animals do not mutilate themselves, masturbate, attack their offspring, develop stomach ulcers, become fetishists, suffer from obesity, form homosexual pair-bonds, or commit murder. Among human city dwellers, needless to say, all of these things occur.”
(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )
John Lentell
1st May, 1970
(Rejected for publication by the Rhodesia Herald for being in ‘poor taste’ )
Wednesday’s Piece
“If males wish to appear super-normally young, they can wear toupees to cover their bald heads, false teeth to fill their gaping mouths, and corsets to hold in their sagging bellies. Young executives, who wish to appear super-normally old, have been known to indulge in artificially greying of their juvenile hair.”
(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )
John Lentell
1st May, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
(Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892)
John Lentell
30th April, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
29th April, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“The Roman patricians of the year 33, the philosophers and the intellectuals would have been highly amused if they had been told that the unknown young Jew, tried by the procurator of a distant colony, who, so as to avoid complications, handed him over against his will to the crowd, would play an infinitely greater role than Caesar, would dominate the history of the Occident, and become the purest symbol of all humanity….”
(From Human Destiny by Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, 1883 – 1947)
John Lentell
28th April, 1970
