“The dishonesty of some writers – and of some editors who buy their nonsense, knowing it to be nonsense – is truly breathtaking.”
(From Spy; twenty years in Soviet secret service by Gordon Lonsdale – Konon Trofimovich Molody, 1922 – 1970)
John Lentell
19th August, 1970
“I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
(Oliver Edwards in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)
John Lentell
18th August, 1970
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
(Montesquieu – Charles-Louis de Secondat, 1689 – 1755)
John Lentell
17th August, 1970
“As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
(Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
16th August, 1970
“Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.”
(Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
15th August, 1970
” ‘Thou shalt not cheat thyself’ ought to be the first of all commandments. The ability to obey it is in direct proportion to the ability of being honest with others.”
(From On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz, 1903 – 1989)
John Lentell
14th August, 1970
“Alimony: the high cost of leaving.”
John Lentell
13th August, 1970
“Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad make the earth fruitful.”
(Unknown)
John Lentell
“At the beginning of this year the new headmistress and the trustees decided to clamp down on discipline.”
(Sunday Mail – 9th August, 1970)
John Lentell
11th August, 1970
“A prominent man, when asked what other person he would rather be than himself, replied ‘My wife’s second husband.’ That was true love and beautiful loyalty.”
(Nathan Howard Cist)
John Lentell
10th August, 1970
“I’ve lost my key and I am waiting for my children to come home and let me in” said the man found sitting on his doorstep by a policeman at 3 o’c clock in the morning!
John Lentell
8th August, 1970
“Success in love consists not so much in marrying the one who can make you happy as in escaping the many who could make you miserable.”
(Chuck Swindoll, 1934 – )
John Lentell
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
(Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662)
John Lentell
6th August, 1970
Lentell Soup 