Three are not to be trusted: the steadiness of a horse, the favor of a king and the faith of women.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th May, 1971
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Wednesday’s Piece
Show me a man who makes no mistakes and I will show you a man who doesn’t do things.
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 – 1919)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4th May, 1971
(Photo: Ross, Gour, Dickon and mum Sylvia)
Tuesday’s Piece
On a postcard showing a picture of the Venus de Milo, Noel coward wrote a message to a friend: “You see what will happen to you if you keep on biting your nails.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3rd April, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
It is wise to apologise to a man if you are wrong – and to a woman if you are right.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2nd May, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
It’s sad for a girl to reach the age
When men consider her charmless,
But it’s worse for a man to attain the age
Where the girls consider him harmless.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
1st May, 1971
Friday’s Piece
The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is Aristocracy.
(Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
30th April, 1971
(Photo: Dickon Lentell)
Thursday’s Piece
To be positive:- to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
29th April, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
A statesman is an ex-politician who has mastered the art of holding his tongue.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
28th April, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
If your folks didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.
(Clarence Day, 1874 – 1935)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
27th April, 1971
(Photo: Ross, Dickon and I, and our offspring – 2006)
Monday’s Piece
A professor of English was one day caught by his wife in the act of embracing one of his students.
“Why, professor,” she exclaimed, “I’m surprised!”
“Oh, no, my dear,” came the reply, “it is I who am surprised, you are astonished.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
26th April, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
25th April, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
…it takes about thirty-six muscles to smile and ninety-seven to frown.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
24th April, 1971
Friday’s Piece
She looks like an accident on its way to happen.
(Overheard at a party)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
23rd April, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
‘Legend’ – a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
(H. L. Mencken, 1880 – 1956)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
22nd April, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
The difference between a groove and a grave is only a matter of depth.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
21st April, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
The golden rule is there is no golden rule.
(George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20th April, 1971
(Photo – Ross Lentell)
Monday’s Piece
“How come you’re so wise?” said the young man.
“Because,” said the old man, “I’ve got good judgment. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well that comes from poor judgment.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th April, 1971
(Photo – my father and I)
Sunday’s Piece
Criticism is something you can avoid – by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th April, 1971
(Photo of John in his Demis Roussos phase)
Saturday’s Piece
A small boy in the visitor’s gallery was watching the proceedings of the Senate chamber.
“Father, who is that gentleman?” he asked, pointing to the chaplain.
“That, my son, is the chaplain,” replied his father.
“Does he pray for the Senators?” asked the boy.
“No, my son; when he goes in he looks around and sees the Senators sitting there, and then he prays for the country.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th April, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
(Benjamin Disraeli – reply to a taunt by Daniel O’Connell)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th April, 1971
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