A society matron was looking at a new picture she’d had taken.
“Why, it’s an outrage!” she stormed. “Now I ask you, does it look like me?”
The photographer was flustered for a moment but quickly regained his composure.
“Madam,” he said, bowing slightly, “the answer is in the negative.”
John Lentell
3 October 1971
(Photo: Pingu. Remember this quote is from the days of film cameras, before digital!)
“Everyone lives by selling something.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 – 1894)
John Lentell
1 October 1971
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.”
(Katherine Mansfield, prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer and poet, 1888 – 1923)
John Lentell
2 October 1971
“…This woman, through great effort, did manage to achieve a cold, mechanical perfection in whatever she did, but it was at the expense of joy and spontaneity and warmth. She was perfect, a perfect bore.”
(Don’t Grow Old – Grow up! Know, Be and Like Yourself by Dorothy Carnegie)
John Lentell
30 September 1971
“An auction is where you buy stuff from somebody else’s attic to store in your own.”
John Lentell
29 September 1971
“When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer strike.”
(Arabian proverb)
John Lentell
28 September 1971
“…I, with many a fear
For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs,
Among Men who do not love her, linger here.”
(Poems dedicated to National Independence, William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
27 September 1971
Photo: Kloof St, Cape Town
“There are three Johns:
1. The real John, known only to his maker.
2. John’s ideal John, never the real one, and often very unlike him.
3. Thomas’s ideal John, never the real John, nor John’s John, but often very unlike either.”
(Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, 1809 – 1894, American physician, poet, and polymath)
John Lentell
26 September 1971
Photo: three Johns – John the original, John Kilgour (me) and Jon Paul two weeks ago in Joburg
Lentell Soup 