An old maid is a debutante who overdid it.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th August, 1971
Month: February 2019
Tuesday’s Piece
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
Monday’s Piece
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
Sunday’s Piece
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
Saturday’s Piece
People don’t spend millions for amusement. They spend it in search of amusement.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th August, 1971
Friday’s Piece
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
Thursday’s Piece
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
Wednesday’s Piece
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
Tuesday’s Piece
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
Friday’s Piece
Political troubles are always multiplied by divisor.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3rd August, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2nd August, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
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
Tuesday’s Piece
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
Monday’s Piece
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
Sunday’s Piece
A man finding a hearing aid on the deck of a ferry, picked it up and shouted, “Hey, there!”.
Every head turned but one and the aid was returned to the rightful owner.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
29th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
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
Friday’s Piece
Boss: “Shame on you. Do you know what we do with office boys who tell lies?”
Office Boy: “Yes sir. When they get old enough, the firm sends them out as salesmen.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
27th July, 1971
