“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
