To the rapturous, wild and ineffable pleasure
Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.
(Henry Sambrooke Leigh, 1837 – 1883)
John Lentell
15th December, 1970
To the rapturous, wild and ineffable pleasure
Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.
(Henry Sambrooke Leigh, 1837 – 1883)
John Lentell
15th December, 1970
Never explain – your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway..
(Elbert Hubbard, 1856 – 1915)
John Lentell
14th December, 1970
The world makes way for a resolute soul; obstacles get out of the path of a determined man who believes in himself.
(Orison Swett Marden, 1848 – 1924)
John Lentell
12th December, 1970
If I were a cassowary
On the plains of Timbuktu,
I would eat a missionary,
Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
(Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, 1805 – 1873)
John Lentell
11th December, 1970
These ladies of irresistible modesty are those who make virtue unamiable.
Sir Richard Steele, 1672 – 1729)
John Lentell
10th December, 1970
An act for the more effectual discouraging of the crime of adultery was sent down from the Lords. The question being put, That the Bill be read a second time – Ayes 40, Noes 51.
(House of Commons 1754)
John Lentell
9th December, 1970
What thing is love? – for (well I wot) love is a thing,
It is a prick, it is a sting,
it is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole!
(George Peele, 1556 – 1596)
John Lentell
6th December, 1970
I court others in verse, but I love thee in prose;
And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart.
(Matthew Prior, 1664 – 1721)
John Lentell
6th December, 1970
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
(Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1879–1972)
John Lentell
5th December, 1970
“Here’s to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.”
(Ambrose Bierce, 1842 – 1914)
John Lentell
3rd December, 1970
“Have you heard of the terrible family They,
And the dreadful venomous things They say?
Why, half of the gossip under the sun,
If you trace it back, you will find begun
In that wretched House of They.”
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 – 1919)
John Lentell
1st December, 1970
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
(Elbert Hubbard, 1856 – 1915)
John Lentell
30th November, 1970