We live in a world that is part reality, part dreams; the tension between the two is the source of our creativity.
(Edwin Warner – Time essay, 18th Jan, 1971)
John Lentell
22nd January, 1971
Month: March 2016
Monday’s Piece
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
(George Santayana, 1863 – 1952)
John Lentell
21st January, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Remember the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for example.
(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)
John Lentell
20th January, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you can live fully is from thirty to sixty.
(Hervey Allen, 1889 – 1949)
John Lentell
19th January, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean.
It’s the worse darn stuff I’ve ever seen.
I like it.
(Graham Lee Hemminger, 1895 – 1949)
John Lentell
18th January, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial….
(Colley Cibber, 1671 – 1757)
John Lentell
17th January, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll..
The optimist sees the doughnut,
The pessimist, the hole.
John Lentell
16th June, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Happiness is like a kiss – in order to get any good out of it you have to give it to somebody else.
John Lentell
15th January, 1971
Lentell Soup 