When in America, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, the grand old man of the Chinese diplomatic service in his day, was questioned sweetly by an American:
“What ‘nese are you – Japanese, Javanese, Chinese?”
Replying that he was Chinese, he asked in turn:
“And what ‘kee are you – monkey, donkey or Yankee?”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20th June, 1971
The best of life is always ahead,
Always further on.
(Philosophy of Sir. William Mulock who died at the age of 100)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th June, 1971
Love is as strong as death…
“Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can floods drown it.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th June, 1971
As long as men have existed, man has enjoyed himself too little; that alone, my brothers, is our original sin!
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th June, 1971
Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!
(Cassio in Othello, by William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th June, 1971
‘Conservatism’ – unadventurous devotion to convenience.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th June, 1971
Life is adventure in experience, and when you are no longer greedy for the last drop of it, it means no more than you have set your face….to the day when you shall depart.
(Donald C. Peattie – 1898 – 1964)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th June, 1971
