Just outside my wisdom
are words that would answer everything.
(Joan Walsh Anglund, 1926 – )
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
23rd June, 1971
Month: June 2017
Saturday’s Piece
Asked if he believed in luck, Jean Cocteau the French writer replied: “Certainly. How else do you explain the success of those you don’t like?”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
22nd June, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Asked what kind of exercise he took, a man answered:
“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
21st June, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
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
Monday’s Piece
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
Sunday’s Piece
Love is as strong as death…
“Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can floods drown it.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th June, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
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
Friday’s Piece
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
Thursday’s Piece
‘Conservatism’ – unadventurous devotion to convenience.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th June, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
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
