“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
John lentell
29th June, 1970
Month: May 2012
Friday’s Piece
Thursday’s Piece
“A young bride walked into a chemist and timidly asked if the baby tonic they advertised really made babies bigger and stronger. Assured that it did and that they had never had a complaint she bought a bottle. Minutes later she returned, took the chemist into a corner and whispered into his ear, ‘I forgot to ask – who takes it, me or my husband?’.”
John Lentell
27th June, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“….in A.D. 2061 people will find it….difficult to understand how the ghastly mumbo-jumbo of hanging a man could still have survived in a civilised society a hundred years ago.”
(‘On Moral Courage‘ by Compton Mackenzie, 1883 – 1972)
John Lentell
25th June, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
How magnanimous and what a fine beginning it would be to his reign if Ted Heath sent george Brown to the House of Lords – assuming of course that he wants to go.
John Lentell
24th June, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
(Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662)
John Lentell
6th August, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“My Analyze over the ocean
My Analyze over the sea
Oh, who will go over the ocean
And bring back my Anatomy.”
(Written by a student when asked to compose something to incude the words “analyze” and “anatomy”!)
John Lentell
23rd June, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“‘The Tory party is run by about five people” said one leading Tory: ‘and they all treat their followers with disdain: they’re mostly Etonians, and Eton is good for disdain.'”
(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
22nd June, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“Can you still feel the warmth of fish and chips through a newspaper? That is something only the English experience. It is the most comforting sensation in the whole world…”
(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)
John Lentell
21st June, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“An English lady, self-appointed supervisor of village morals, accused a workman of having reverted to drink because ‘with her own eyes’ she had seen his wheelbarrow standing outside a public house.
The accused man said little in his defence, but the same evening he placed his wheelbarrow outside her door and left it there all night.”
John Lentell
20th June, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Order your thinking. Begin with the most simple objects so as to rise as if by steps to a knowledge of the most complex.”
(René Descartes, 1596 – 1650)
John Lentell
26th June, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“I am particularly incensed when non-Rhodesians involve themselves in politics….This (exhibit) advertisement….is the work of a non-citizen. It might be his good intention to become a citizen. But in the meantime I would say that he is here on probation and should keep his nose out of active politics. He should certainly not seek to influence those of us who are voters in a manner which implies that we are lot of nit-wits. In many countries such a person would find his stay short-lived. Indeed, some have been deported from Rhodesia seemingly for less….”
(Extract from speech by Independent candidate for Salisbury City at Liberty Cinema – April 2nd, 1970)
John Lentell
19th June, 1970
Lentell Soup 