During his days as a dramatic critic, Robert Benchley covered a play on Broadway called The Squall. When the inevitable half-caste girl said, “Me Nubi. Me good girl. Me stay.” Benchley squirmed in hi seat and whispered to a companion, “Me Bobby. Me bad boy. Me go.”
John Lentell
27th April, 1970
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
(Aldous Huxley, 1894 – 1963)
John Lentell
24th April, 1970
“Love…..which requires reasons is no true love…..love should be perfectly natural, as natural for man as for the birds to flap their wings….”
(From The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976)
John Lentell
23rd April, 1970
“Living with someone when you are in love with someone else seems to me the essence of prostitution – and when he is your husband it is worse, because there is no escape. I lie rigid and try to make my mind a dark blank and remind myself that it is right and proper and that this is what I am here for. And the loneliness goes out of everything and I fell ill….”
(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)
John Lentell
22nd April, 1970
“History tells us of a white-haired shepherd of Sparta, who learned to understand men perfectly from always having lived alone with his sheep.”
John Lentell
21st April, 1970
“We have not got thise tipe of shourts”
(Reply in total from prominent local clothing factory to courteous 84 word memo enquiring for assistance in locating further supplies – scribbled on on reverse and handed back to messenger who motored 7 miles there and back!)
John Lentell
19th April, 1970
“Only when there are 150,000 fewer fertilizations per day than there are at present, will we be holding the human population steady at its already overgrown level.”
(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )
John Lentell
18th April, 1970
A friend in conversation with Voltaire said:
“It is good of you to say such pleasant things of Monsieur X when he always says such nasty things of you.”
To which Voltaire replied:
“Perhaps we are both mistaken.”
John Lentell
17th April, 1970
“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grow keener with constant use.”
(Washington Irving, 1783-1859)
John Lentell
16th April, 1970
Lentell Soup 