“If you want to get rich you son of a bitch,
I’ll tell you what to do:
Never sit down with a tear or a frown,
And paddle your own canoe.”
(Anon.)
John Lentell
29th November, 1970
Month: June 2015
Saturday’s Piece
“What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
(Ernest Hemingway, 1899 – 1961)
John Lentell
28th November, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“Love’s mysteries in souls do grow
And yet the body is his book.”
(John Donne, 1572 – 1631)
John Lentell
27th November, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together”
(Thomas Eliot, 1888 – 1965)
John Lentell
26th November, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“When one begins to know that he doesn’t know, then he first begins to know a great deal.”
(Professor R.M. Wenly, 1861 – 1929)
John Lentell
25th November, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“Trouble is a great sieve through which we sift our acquaintances; those who are too big to pass through are friends.”
(Arlene Francis, 1907 – 2011)
John Lentell
24th November, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“The middle way is frequently taken by those who do not know where they are going, and so find comfort in having company on both sides.”
(Prof. F. A. Harper, 1905 – 1973)
John Lentell
21st November, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“He who has a thing to sell,
And goes and whispers in a well,
Is not so apt to get the dollars,
As he who climbs a tree and hollers.”
(Advertising industry quote attributed to Henry Taunt, 1842-1922)
John Lentell
20th November, 1970
Saturday’s’ Piece
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
19th November, 1970
Friday’s Piece
Old lady to vicar, who was leaving with the parish:
“I am so sorry you are going. I have enjoyed your sermons so much. We never knew what sin was until you came.”
John Lentell
18th November, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“Enough to make a civil servant turn in his groove.”
(Collie Knox, 1899 – 1977)
John Lentell
17th November, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“I love every thing that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
(Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 -1774)
John Lentell
16th November, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“As the French say, there are three sexes, men, women and clergymen.”
(Rev. Sydney Smith, 1771 – 1845)
John Lentell
15th November, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretend friend is worse.”
(John Gay, 1685 – 1732)
John Lentell
14th November, 1970
