Freckles:- nice sun tan – if they’d only get together.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th August, 1971

(Photo: Ross ~1968)

Platonic love:- the gun you didn’t was loaded.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th August, 1971

(Photo: Zietz MOCCA museum, Cape Town 2017)

An old maid is a debutante who overdid it.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th August, 1971

(Photo: Burning Man, Nevada, 2007)

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.

(Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13th August, 1971

(Photo: with my uncle Graham, Cape Town airport, 2016)

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

(Plutarch, AD 46 – AD 120)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th August, 1971

(Photo: wine tasting, Stellenbosch 2017)

I live while I live and when I die, if there is life after death, I shall live again.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th August, 1971

(Photo: my hero, Magaya Kahondo, Harare 2018)

People don’t spend millions for amusement. They spend it in search of amusement.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th August, 1971

(Photo: my son Ivan at Victoria Falls, July 2018)

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away.

(Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th August, 1971

(Photo: Serena and friends, Melbourne, 2018)

You can tell when a high school boy is serious about a girl by the way she calls him up every evening.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th August, 1971

(Photo: Ivan and Elena, Sydney, Nov 2018)

Philosopher:- a person who says he doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on, because he eats both sides anyway.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th August, 1971

(Photo: Gour at Penny Royal cafe, Mosman, Sydney 2017)

He started as poor as the proverbial church mouse twenty years ago. He has now retired with a fortune of $100,000.00 This money was acquired through economy, conscientious effort to give full value, indomitable perseverance, and the death of an uncle who left him $999,999.50.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th August, 1971

(Photo: Ivan in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe 2018)

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the Highlands of affliction.

(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834 – 1892)

John Lentell
4 August, 1971

(Photo: Princess Drive, Highlands, Harare ~1970)

Sleep is a small death…
yet we do not fear it.
Sleep is a small death…
Does it tell us of a larger dream?

(Joan Walsh Anglund, 1926 – )

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
1st August, 1971

It happened in a First Street sports shop: A woman asked to see a “low handicap”, explaining that her husband wanted one so much that she thought it would be nice to surprise him on his birthday.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
31st July, 1971

An efficiency expert is a man who knows less about your business than you do, and gets paid more for telling you how to run it than you could possibly make out of it, even you ran it right instead of the way he told you to.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
30th July, 1971

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite.

(Elbert Hubbard, 1856 – 1915)

JohnLentell
Rhodesia Herald
28th July, 1971