“A votary of the desk – a notched and cropt scrivener – one that sucks his sustenance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.”
(Charles Lamb, 1775 – 1834)
John Lentell
5th August, 1970
Month: February 2013
Tuesday’s Piece
“The languid way in which he gives you a handful of numb unresponsive fingers is very significant.”
(Carlyle on Wordsworth)
John Lentell
4th August, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“Samuel Johnson: ‘I do not hate the Scots sir, neither do I hate frogs, but I’m damned if I like them hopping around my chambers.'”
John Lentell
3rd August, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“The most swollen-headed, vainglorious nincompoops in existence. Dirty little £5 a-week fellers.”
(Sam harris, film magnate, on critics)
John Lentell
2nd August, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“Fish and visitors spoil after the third day.”
(Old saying)
John Lentell
1st August, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.”
(George Meredith, 1828 – 1909)
John Lentell
30th July, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
(Edward John Phelps, 1822 – 1900)
John Lentell
29th July, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Two big factors restrict strikes. One is the unions’ small funds, which amount only to an average week’s wages to each man. The other is public opinion, which looms like a genie: the TUC knows well that strikes by public services, as by the London busmen in 1958, can make the genie scowl.”
(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
18th July, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“It takes a thousand nuts to put a car together but it only takes one nut to spread it all over the road!”
John Lentell
17th July, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
(Mark Twain, 1853-1910)
John Lentell
15th July, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“Dr. Philip Blaiberg left an estate of $90,000, his wife being the sole heiress with the exception of his maid who inherits $50.”
(Rhodesia Television News bulletin – 14/7/70)
John Lentell
16th July, 1970
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