He is the kind of fellow – well, his father wanted a girl, his mother wanted a boy – and they were both satisfied.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
26th July, 1971

Anybody who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have their head examined.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
25th July, 1971

Mud thrown is ground lost.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
24th July, 1971

Here lies a lawyer,
Laugh, if you will,
In mercy, kind Providence
Let him lie still.

He lied for his living,
He lived while he lied.
When he couldn’t lie longer,
He lied down and died.

(A Lawyer’s Epitaph – Anonymous)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
23rd July, 1971

It was fruit that caused all the trouble in the Garden of Eden, but was it an apple or a green pear?

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
22nd July, 1971

It isn’t your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it’s your disposition.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
21st July, 1971

Hate – See Love.

(Heading in one of my reference books!)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20th July, 1971

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

(Oscar Wilde,  1854 – 1900)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th July, 1971

I think that life is not too long,
And therefore I determine,
That many people read a song,
Who will not read a sermon.

(W. Mackworth Praed, 1802 – 1839)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th July, 1971

I ain’t never done nothin’ to nobody;
I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody;
And until I get somethin’ from somebody, sometime,
I don’t intend to do nothin’ for nobody, no time.

(From Nobody, song lyrics by Alex Rogers, 1905)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th July, 1971

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
Think of yourself as “he” instead of “I”.

(From Watch Yourself Go By by Strickland Gillilan, 1869–1954)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th July, 1971

Intuition – the strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th July, 1971

“Did your husband die a natural death?” Mrs Smith was asked.
“Oh, no” she replied.
“He had a doctor.”

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th July, 1971

Tired
And lonely,
So tired
The heart aches.
Meltwater trickles
Down the rocks,
The fingers are numb,
The knees tremble.
It is now,
Now, that you must not give in.

(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 -1961)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13th July, 1971

The Kinsey Reports proved just one thing: women like to talk.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th July, 1971