To the rapturous, wild and ineffable pleasure
Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.
(Henry Sambrooke Leigh, 1837 – 1883)
John Lentell
15th December, 1970
Month: January 2016
Saturday’s Piece
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
Friday’s Piece
Neurotic: A person who, when you ask how she is, tells you.
John Lentell
13th December, 1970
(Photo of John)
Thursday’s Piece
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
Wednesday’s Piece
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
Tuesday’s Piece
These ladies of irresistible modesty are those who make virtue unamiable.
Sir Richard Steele, 1672 – 1729)
John Lentell
10th December, 1970
Monday’s Piece
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
