I’m not denying the women are foolish:
God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
(George Eliot, 1819 – 1880)
John Lentell
13th February, 1971
Month: March 2016
Sunday’s Piece
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
(Elbert Hubbard, 1856 – 1915)
John Lentell
12th February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Babies haven’t any hair;
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.
(Samuel Hoffenstein, 1890 – 1947)
John Lentell
11th February, 1971
Friday’s Piece
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
10th February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
I’ve shut the door on yesterday
And thrown away the key –
Tomorrow holds no fears for me,
Since I have found today.
(Vivian Y. Laramore, 1892 – 1975)
John Lentell
9th February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect, which women never do.
(Anonymous – written on a looking glass)
John Lentell
8th February, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
(Captain Thomas Drummond, 1797 – 1840)
John Lentell
7th February, 1971
Monday’s Piece
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!
(John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 – 1892)
John Lentell
5th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Man, biologically considered…is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
(William James, 1842 – 1910)
John Lentell
4th February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
(Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
3rd February, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Sometimes we suspect the heart, even if the tongue be truthful.
John Lentell
2nd February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
A conference is a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
John Lentell
1st February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
(George Burns, 1896 – 1996)
John Lentell
31st January, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him – the sympathetic woman gets him.
(Helen Rowland, 1875 – 1950)
John Lentell
30th January, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Some people are like blotters – they soak it all in but get it all backwards.
John Lentell
29th January, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
The man who rows the boat generally doesn’t have time to rock it.
John Lentell
27th January, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Henry Thoreau (the poet who invented a lead pencil and refused to patent it and cash in on it) enjoyed looking at birds through a telescope. He said, “A gun gives you the body not the bird”.
John Lentell
26th January, 1971
Friday’s Piece
We can have a little secrecy without having a Government that is altogether secret. Each added measure of secrecy, however, measurably diminishes our freedom.
(James Russell Wiggins, 1903 – 2000)
John Lentell
25th January, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
When Beau Brummel was asked the secret of his success with women, he answered: “Oh, I merely treat the charwomen like a duchesses, and the duchesses like charwomen”.
John Lentell
24th January, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
John Lentell
23rd January, 1971
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